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  1. Composer: Ngoleka, G.P. (Performer) Composer not specified | 1949-00-00 | Indigenous music, Malawi, Ngoleka,G.P., Nyasaland, Southern African, Topical song, Unaccompanied, Yao, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record number: TP1197
  2. Composer: Composer not specifiedCaldwell, J. (Performer) | 1900-01-00 | Caldwell,J., Central African, East African, Lunda, Piano, Religious music, Song, Uganda, ILAM | Translated English title - "There is city bright." Further details refer ILAM shellac record number TP0606-XYZ3394
  3. Artist(s): Nyamwezi men and women (Performer) | Composer: Shabani Mutalise (Performer)Composer not specified | 1951-00-00 | East African, Folk song, Indigenous music, Mutalise,Shabani (Sgt.), Nyamwezi, Nyamwezi, Tabora, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Unaccompanied, Vocal, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: D4H 19
  4. Artist(s): Chinda Kamwana (Performer) | 1952/05/24 | Accordion, Chinda Kamwana, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kenya, Kiamuthambi, Kikuyu, Kikuyu territory, Struck iron, Topical song, ILAM | A topical song with accordian and struck iron. The accordian is used as a ground which creates a happy noise but has little, if any, melodic or harmonic relationship to the tonality or mode of the voice.Song to accompany a town dance in which men and women dance together in pairs, after the fashion of Europeans.Further details refer ILAM field card number: F3B 6
  5. Composer: Kadhari wa Marere (Performer) | 1952/05/25 | Accordion, Dance song, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kadhari wa Marere, Kenya, Kikuyu, Mombasa, Struck iron, ILAM | Mwomboro dance music. Further details refer ILAM fieldcard F3C-14.
  6. Composer: Dasane Ibanda (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952/06/23 | East African, Folk music, Guitar, Ibanda,Dasane, Indigenous music, Jinja, Love song, Soga, Uganda, ILAM | Translated English title - "My heart thinks of you." Further details refer ILAM field card number: F3P 13
  7. Artist(s): N. H. Makanya (Conductor) | Composer: The Bantu Glee Singers (Performer) | 1900-01-00 | Bantu Glee Singers, Choral music, Euro-African, Folk song, Indigenous music, KwaZulu-Natal, Makanya,Nimrod H., South Africa, Southern African, Unaccompanied, Zulu, Zululand, ILAM | Euro-African ballad. Further details refer ILAM shellac record number CR0663.
  8. Composer: Gideon Mkize's Dance Orchestra (Performer)Composer not specified | 1951-00-00 | Folk music, Gideon Mkize, Gideon Mkize's Dance Orchestra, Guitar, South Africa, Southern African, Zulu, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number: CR3284.
  9. Composer: Peggy Tracey (Narrator)Shirazi Men (Performer) | 1900-01-00 | East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Shirazi, Swahili, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Tracey, Peggy, Zanziba, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM reel number: BC59.
  10. Composer: Dark City Band (Performer)Composer not specified | 1940-00-00 | concertina, Dark City Band, Drum, Guitar, KwaZulu-Natal, Natal, Popular music, South Africa, Southern African, Vocal, Zulu, Zululand, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR0780

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