South African Music Archive Project
East African
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- Artist(s): Gogo men and women | Composer: Malaika Chedego (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | East African, Gogo, Gogo, Iringa, Malaika Chedego, Nindo praise song, Tanganyika, Tanzania, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number: CR1548.
- Composer: Bemba Men (Performer)A. K. Kaniki (Leader)Composer not specified | 1952-00-00 | Bemba, Bemba, Dance song, East African, Indigenous music, Kaniki,A.K., Nkana, Northern Rhodesia, Rattle, Zambia, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR3504.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- Artist(s): Gogo Men and Women (Performer) | Composer: Nyinamwaluko (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950/06/17 | East African, Folk song, Gogo, Gogo, Indigenous music, Invitation Song, Ndwala bells, Nyinamwaluku, Tanganyika, Tanzania, ILAM | Invitation Song. Further details refer ILAM foeld card number XYZ6175
- Composer: NyinamwalukoGogo men and women | 1950/06/17 | boys, East African, girls, Gogo, Gogo, initiation, Nyinamwaluku, Song, Tanganyika, Tanzania, ILAM | Initiation song for boys and girls, accompanied by Ndwala bellsRefer ILAM field card D2X3
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