South African Music Archive Project
ILAM
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- Composer: Southern Choir, Roma College | 1951/05/23 | Basutoland, Concert, imitation, Lesotho, mine, onomatopoeia, Song, Sotho, Sotho, South Sotho, Southern African, Southern Choir - Roma College, train, ILAM | Song with imitation of train sound, in which singers ask to be taken to the mines on the train. Refer ILAM field card E1C3
- Composer: Southern Choir (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952-00-00 | Basutoland, Concert song, Lesotho, Roma, Sotho, South Sotho, Southern African, Southern Choir - Roma College, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number: CR1982.
- Artist(s): Church Choir Roma (Performer) | Composer: Church Choir Roma (Performer) | 1900-01-00 | Basutoland, Concert, Hymn-like, Lesotho, Male Choir, Song, Sotho, South Sotho, Southern African, traditional, ILAM | A male choir performing a hymn-like concert song. ILAM field card number is unknown
- Composer: Ositeni Phula (Performer) | 1949/09/05 | Chewa, Folk music, Malawi, Nyanja, Nyasaland, Ositeni Phula, Pango, Salima, Southern African, ILAM | Story song
- Artist(s): Ositeni Phula (Composer/Performer)Mesiyasi Chulu (Composer/Performer) | Composer: Ositeni Phula (Composer/Performer)Mesiyasi Chulu (Composer/Performer) | 1949/09/05 | Bangwe board zither, Chewa, East African, Indigenous music, Malawi, Mesiyasi Chulu, Nyanja, Nyasaland, Ositeni Phula, Song, Southern African, story, ILAM | Story song accompanied by the Bangwe board zither. The English title is The frog sleeps in the water. Refer ILAM field card C5C8
- Composer: Ngaina NoloMtonya Bota | 1950/06/17 | East African, Gogo, Ilimba mbira, Mtonya Bota, Ngaina Nolo, Song, Tanganyika, Tanzania, ILAM | Song accompanied by 20 note Ilimba mbira, which has the lowest tones of any mbiraRefer ILAM field card D2X8
- Composer: Composer not specifiedSibanda, G. (Performer)George Sibanda (Performer) | 1900-01-00 | English, Guitar, Ndebele, Nguni, Sibanda, George, Song, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record number TP0126-ABC3214
- Composer: George Sibanda | 1948/05/13 | Guitar, love, Ndebele, Sibanda, George, Song, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Love song accompanied by guitarRefer ILAM field card A2D4
- Artist(s): Zegbe and Ndongo men and women | 1952/07/31 | Basket rattle, Chief Maki, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Faradje territory, Folk - Central African, Harp, Likembe, Ndongo, Ndongo, North Eastern Congo, Republic of the Congo, Zegbe, ILAM | This song is usually sung after a funeral, with harp, likembe and basket rattle. Leader - Zegbe and Ndongo men and women. Chief Maki, Faradje territory, North East Congo., The singers lament the death of a friend and in so doing demonstrate the fact that Africans celebrate their funerals with dances and apparently gay singing.
- Composer: Boys at Mapanza (Performer) | 1948/05/06 | Axe, Bemba, Folk song, Hunting song, Indigenous music, Mapanza, Mapanza College, Northern Rhodesia, Singa, Southern African, Zambia, ILAM | Folk song for hunting with three axes.Further details refer ILAM field card (AX14)
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