South African Music Archive Project
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- Composer: Premier Groument Force (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952-00-00 | Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African, Elisabethville, Indigenous music, Musique Militaire du Premier Groupment Force Publique, Ngala, Publique, Rattle, Vocal, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR3572.
- Composer: Musique Militaire du Premier Groupment, Force Publique (Performer)Premier Groupment Force Publique, Musique Militaire (Performer) | 1949/07/07 | Belgian Congo, Central African, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, March, Military music, Musique Militaire du Premier Groupment Force Publique, Ngala, Nibale, trumpet, ILAM | Military march with trumpet accompanimentFurther details refer ILAM field card (C2U5)
- Composer: Madukani Phiri (Performer)Composer not specified | 1949-00-00 | Guitar, Marabi, Phiri,Madukani, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Yao, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Marabi dance tune. Further details refer ILAM shellac record number 1595.
- Composer: Madukani Phiri (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952-00-00 | Dance tune, East African, Fort Victoria, Guitar, Indigenous music, Phiri,Madukani, Rattle, Southern Rhodesia, Yao, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR3509.
- Composer: Composer not specifiedMadukani Phiri (Performer) | 1949/10/15 | Guitar, Guitar tune, Instrumental, Phiri,Madukani, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Yao, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Further information refer ILAM field card number: C6Q-9
- Composer: Madukani Phiri (Performer) | 1949/10/15 | Fort Victoria, Guitar tune, Phiri,Madukani, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Yao, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Tune without words. Further details refer ILAM field card no. C6Q9.
- Composer: Salisbury Male Voice Choir (Performer)Composer not specified | 1951-00-00 | Folk music, Salisbury Male Voice Choir, Shona, Southern African, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR3065.
- Composer: Akito Arap Yeko (Composer/Performer) | 1950/09/09 | East African, Kenya, Kipukandet, Lyre, Nandi, Nandi, Praise song, Yeko,Akito Arap, ILAM | Praise song with Kipukandet six string bowl lyre. Further details refer ILAM field card (D6F8)
- Composer: Akito Arap Yeko (Performer) | 1950/09/09 | East African, Kapsabet Nandi district Kenya, Nandi, Praise song, Yeko, Akito Arap, ILAM | Praise song with Kipukandet 5 string lyre (5 or 6 string pentatonic lyre used by Nandi tribe in Kenya, also known as Kibugantet and Chepkong.) This lyre is strummed like a guitar with the right hand, the left hand stopping the five strings, like the Bongwe zither of Nyasaland. This gave 2 chords. Notes 1, 3 and 5 and notes 2 and 4. One string, they said, was missing, the lower octave of number 1. The scale was: 308, 256, 232, 206, 180, (154) vs., The tune comes from the Luo people in the valleys below but has had Nandi words put to it. It is a song of praise for the Nandi country and other places which the singer and his audience have visited., The full recording is not available here.
- Artist(s): Tefiro Olawo (Performer)Dhola men and women (Performer) | Composer: Tefiro Olawo (Performer)Dhola men and women (Performer) | 1950/09/04 | Call and response, Central African, Dhola, Dhola, One gwara horn, party, Song, Tefiro Olawo, traditional, Uganda, ILAM | Traditional party song accompanied by blowing on the gwara horn. Refer ILAM field card D6A5
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