South African Music Archive Project
East African
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- Artist(s): Lomwe men (Performer) | Composer: Nankuni, S. E. (Performer)Composer not specified | 1949-00-00 | East African, Grunting, Indigenous music, Lomwe, Lomwe, Makua, Malawi, Nankhuni,S.E., Nyasaland, Southern African, Wedding song, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record number: TP1201
- Artist(s): Nyakusa men (Performer) | Composer: Singolile Mwamalundi (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950/06/09 | Dance song, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kinanda dance, Ngisi bells, Nyakusa, Nyakusa, Pango raft zither, Singolile Mwamalundi, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Tukuyu, Wedding song, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: D2R 10
- Artist(s): Nandi boys (Performer) | Composer: Paulo Arap Maiyo (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950/09/09 | Dance song, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kenya, Kipkurguroik leg bells, Maiyo,Paulo Arap, Moran dance, Nandi, Nandi, Nandi, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: D6F-4
- Artist(s): Nandi boys | Composer: Paulo Arap Maiyo (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952-00-00 | Dance song, East African, Indigenous music, Kapsabet, Kenya, Kipkurguroik leg bells, Maiyo,Paulo Arap, Moran dance song, Nandi, Nandi, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number: CR2077.
- Composer: Cherondet Arap Ng'asura (Performer and Composer) | 1950/09/15 | Chepkongo lyre, East African, Kenya, Kericho, Kipsigis, Love song, Ng'asura,Charondet Arap, Whistle, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card no. D6L23.
- Composer: Charondet Arap Ng'asura (Performer)Charondet Arap Ng'asura (Composer) | 1950/09/15 | Chepkongo bowl lyre, East African, Indigenous music, Kenya, Kipsigis, Kipsigis, Love song, Ng'asura,Charondet Arap, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: D6L 23
- Composer: Cherondet Arap Ng'asura (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952-00-00 | Chepkongo lyre, East African, Indigenous music, Kapkatet, Kenya, Kipsigis, Love song, Ng'asura,Charondet Arap, Whistling, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR2146.
- Artist(s): Luunda women at Lake Nwenu | Composer: Luunda women (Performer) | 1949/07/20 | axes, Clapping, East African, goblet Drum, Kambwali, Kawambwa, Lake Mwexa, Lake Nwenu, Luunda, Luunda, Northern Rhodesia, slit Drum, West African, ILAM | Folk music. Wedding song. Futher details refer to ILAM field card (C3H)
- Artist(s): Johnnie Murethe Wambu (Performer)Kibunga Waita (Performer) | 1952/06/08 | Accordion, Dance song, East African, Embu, Folk music, Indigenous music, Johnnie Murethe Wambu, Kengere struck iron, Kenya, Kibunga Waita, Kikuyu, Mwamboko dance, Struck iron, ILAM | A Mamboko dance song with accordian and struck iron. The "struck iron" was an old starter ring from the flywheel of a car. It is necessary to have a circular or 'S' shaped piece of metal for convenient playing of the double beat. The performer called it 'Kengere' or 'Beru' bell.The sweepers in Nairobi, they say, always come from Embu. Kibunga Waita, the iron player, was no exception. Elsewhere in Africa certain tribes tend to adopt one occupation exclusively.After hearing a few Kikuyu songs to the accompaniment of the iron and accordian, the listener who is not case hardened to the noise, may experience a singing in the ears for several hours afterwards.Listening to this kind of Kikuyu music is more a feat of endurance than an aesthetic pleasure.Further details refer ILAM field card number: F3H 4
- Artist(s): Alexander Ayub Gombe (Leader) | Composer: The Coast Social Orchestra (Performer)Alexander Ayub Gombe (Composer) | 1952/06/08 | Accordion, Alexander Ayub Gombe, Clarinet, Coast Social Orchestra, Dance Band, Dance music, East African, Fox-trot, Giriyama, Guitar, Kenya, Nguja, Quickstep, Saxophone, Swahili, Taita, trumpet, Tympanist, ILAM | Translated English title - "The coast lads have come back." Further details refer ILAM field card number: F3H 9
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