John Thornley

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John Thornley is an ethnomusicologist and was senior producer for BBC Radio 3 in the 1990s. John Thornley made a series of field recordings in 1987, in Kei Village, near Mount Hagen, in the Western Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea. The field recordings resulting from his three month stay in Papua New Guinea form part of the British Library Sound Archive collections. A selection from his collection was published on the Topic Records CD ‘Healing, Feasting and Magical Ritual. Songs & Dances from Papua New Guinea’ as part of the Topic World Series, done in collaboration with the World and Traditional Music section. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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