Item details
Item ID
MW6-072
Title Excerpts from PNG Top 20 Best Music Chart
Description Tape#1 - PNG Top 20 Music
Side A&B:

Excerpts of radio broadcast program by National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) Kalang FM on the weekly countdown of the best of PNG music in the Top 20 hits.
PNG Top 20 is hosted by Justin Kili and covers various music artists across PNG during the month of August.
In this countdown, No. 20 was Barike Band (Rabaul) with "The Captain" and No.1 was "If I ever say goodbye" by Kales Gadegabs (Madang).
Various songs and artists and musicians from Rabaul in solo, duets and bands in the Top 20 include; George Telek, John Wong, Barike, Painim Wok, Shut Down, Henry Kuskus, Charles Kivovon whilst others from other centres of PNG are represented across the countdown of PNG best music charts every week.
(Steven Gagau, Feburary 2019)
Origination date 1993-08-21
Origination date free form
Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/MW6/072
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Collector
Michael Webb
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Region / village PNG, NBC Studios Port Moresby, National Capital District
Originating university
Operator Nick Fowler-Gilmore
Data Categories song
Data Types Sound
Discourse type singing
Roles Various : singer
Justin Kili : speaker
DOI 10.26278/N8ZJ-3005
Cite as Michael Webb (collector), Various (singer), Justin Kili (speaker), 1993. Excerpts from PNG Top 20 Best Music Chart. MPEG/VND.WAV. MW6-072 at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/N8ZJ-3005
Content Files (4)
Filename Type File size Duration File access
MW6-072-A.mp3 audio/mpeg 41.4 MB 00:45:20.210
MW6-072-A.wav audio/vnd.wav 1.46 GB 00:45:20.190
MW6-072-B.mp3 audio/mpeg 42.7 MB 00:46:42.829
MW6-072-B.wav audio/vnd.wav 1.5 GB 00:46:42.809
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Collection Information
Collection ID MW6
Collection title Music in Rabaul, Gazelle Peninsula, ENBP and New Guinea Islands Region (ca. 1950s - 1990s)
Description Recordings of a wide range of music in Rabaul 1950s-1990s covering areas of the Gazelle Peninsula of East New Britain Province and the New Guinea Islands Region. This collection was the PhD research work by Dr Michael Webb focused on music of Melanesia in the Pacific. This collection was located as a result of PARADISEC's 'Lost and Found' project and digitisation was funded by the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language.

Note: This video recording on Item MW6-012 labelled Queens Birthday Singsing, Rabaul in 1993 was unable to be digitised due to poor quality of tape so deleted from collection.
(Steven Gagau)
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Access Information
Edit access Steven Gagau
Michael Webb
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Data access conditions Open (subject to agreeing to PDSC access conditions)
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