John Thompson
Sign in to saveAlso known as John Brookshire Thompson, John B. Thompson
British sociologist
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Vinony files it under 1951 births, Alumni of Keele University and British sociologists.
Its subject is documented across 8 Wikipedia language editions.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 152
Top works
- Europe's Crises
- Hidden Voices From Hush-a-bye Rooms
- Prized Ponies
- Securitisation
- The attitudes of male and female students towards teachers, school and school subjects
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1949-04-03
Discography
- Morris On1972
- Henry the Human Fly1972
- Strict Tempo!1981
- Hand of Kindness1983
- Across a Crowded Room1985
- Daring Adventures1986
- Amnesia1988
- Rumor and Sigh1991
- Mirror Blue1994
- Twangin’ ’n’ a-Traddin’1995
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 706
- Total plays
- 6,448
Tags
John Thompson is the best known performer of early music for the Chinese silk string zither, the music instrument most favored by Chinese philosophers and aesthetes (in Chinese: qin ["chin"] or guqin ["goo-chin"]). After a college degree in Western musicology (early music) and graduate studies in ethnomusicology, he began in 1974 to study China's silk-string guqin zither as played at present. Since 1976 he has focused on early repertoire, personally reconstructing over 150 melodies published in
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- John
- Family name
- Thompson
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Minneapolis
- Occupation
- sociologist
- Educated at
- Harvard University
- Employer
- University of Cambridge
- Languages spoken
- English language
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- date of birth
- 1966-07-20
- start of work period
- 1981-01-01
- writing language
- English language
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