Ragnar Johnson

Ragnar Johnson is an anthropologist who made field recordings in Ethiopia, Yemen and Papua New Guinea during the 1970s. He started in the summer of 1971, travelling to Ethiopia with Ralph Harrisson, and later recorded ceremonial flute music in Papua New Guinea. He went on to teach the anthropology of art and social anthropology at universities in the UK. Johnson's 1971 Ethiopian tapes, made on a Uher stereo recorder, first appeared on Lyrichord and Ocora. Sub Rosa later reissued them as Ethiopian Urban and Tribal Music (2017) and Ethiopian Musics 1971.