South African Music Archive Project
Central African
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- Artist(s): Small dance band (Performer) | Composer: Cold Storage Commision of S. Rhodesia Dance Band (Performer)August Msarurwa (Leader) | 1951/06/08 | Central African, Cold Storage Commission of Southern Rhodesia African Dance Band, Dance Band, European music, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Zezuru, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Quick-step music. Further details refer ILAM shellac record number E2E
- Artist(s): Ruidwadzano Choir (Performer) | Composer: Ruidwadzano Choir (Performer) | 1950/05/06 | Central African, East African, Hymn, Manyika, Ruidwadzano Choir, Southern Rhodesia, Unaccompanied, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Methodist hymn. Further details refer to ILAM field card DH15
- Composer: Razoro Bagumiza (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | Central African, Dance song, Drum, East African, Indigenous music, Nkole, Nyoro, Rattle, Razoro Bagumiza, Uganda, ILAM | Dance music for men. Further details refer ILAM shellac record number TP1889.
- Composer: Razaro Begumiza (Performer) | 1950/08/17 | Ankole, Central African, Drum, Folk song, Indigenous music, Nkole, Nyoro, Rattle, Razaro Begumiza, Uganda, ILAM | Entogoro dance song with drums and rattles and accompanied by Nkole men.Further details refer ILAM field card (D5I8)
- Composer: Ngala soldiers (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952/08/02 | Central African, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Drum, Gombari, Indigenous music, Marching song, Ngala, Ngala, Republic of the Congo, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: F4F 10
- Artist(s): Unaccompanied | Composer: Chakanyuka "Friday" Ngara (Composer) | 1951/06/14 | Buumba, Central African, concertina, Manyika, Ngara,Chakanyuka (Friday), Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Love song. Further details refer to ILAM field card E2K
- Composer: Paseli Brothers (Performer)Composer not specified | 1948-00-00 | banjo, Central African, Folk music, Guitar, Nyanja, Paseli Brothers, Southern African, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number: CR3384.
- Composer: Louis Karafulu (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952/07/04 | Central African, East African, Folk music, Inanga zithe, Indigenous music, Kivu, Louis Karafulu, Praise song, Ruanda, Rundi, Urundi, ILAM | Translated English title - "I must feed my cattle." Further details refer ILAM field card number: F3T 2
- Artist(s): Simon Mafiru Sitole | 1957/01/03 | Central African, Chipinga district, Indigenous music, Mount Selinda, Ndau, Rhodesia, Simon Mafiru Sitole, Southern Rhodesia, Topical song, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Topical song with mbira dza WaNdau and deze resonator. "See I am crying, mother-in-law.Poverty, elder brother, alack.See, Sophiatown is bad, PatisoniIn my distress I think of homeHappiness to you all at Marange."The singer sings about the conditions in which he finds himself at Sophiatown, near Johannesburg, where he works as a carpenter's assistant. His home, Marange is in the Chipinga District of Southern Rhodesia, about 400 miles north east of Johannesburg.Details from ILAM record number TP4272-2
- Artist(s): Small dance band (Performer) | Composer: Cold Storage Commision of S. Rhodesia Dance Band (Performer)August Msarurwa (Leader) | 1951/06/08 | Central African, Cold Storage Commission of Southern Rhodesia African Dance Band, Dance Band, Dance song, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Zezuru, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Dance song. "Give me what I deserve". Further details refer to ILAM field card E2E
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