South African Music Archive Project
East African
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- Composer: Lang Obiero (Composer/Performer) | 1952/09/26 | East African, Guitar, Kenya, Luo, Nairobi, Obiero,Lang, Rattle, ILAM | Town dance music. Further details refer ILAM field card (F4Z9)
- Composer: Lang Obiero (Performer)Obiero (Composer) | 1952/09/26 | Dance song, East African, Guitar, Kenya, Kisumu, Luo, Obiero,Lang, Popular music, Rattle, Southern African, Town dance, Yala Gem, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: F4Z 9
- 1900-01-00 | Drum, East African, Guitar, Indigenous music, Kenya, Nairobi, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM CD number: BC76.
- Composer: Simoni Zambezi Chirumba (Performer) | 1949/09/21 | Drinking song, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Mozambique, Nsansi, Portuguese East Africa, Sena, Simoni Zambezi Chirumba, Tete, Tonga, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card no. C5S10b.
- Artist(s): Kikuyu boys (Performer) | Composer: Kariuki Ndenderu (Performer) | 1950/09/23 | Dance song, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kariuki Ndenderu, Kenya, Kikuyu, Kikuyu, Nairobi, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Njama dance song. Further details refer ILAM fieldcard D6T3.
- Artist(s): Kariuki Ndenderu and Kikuyu boys (Performer) | Composer: Composer not specified | 1950/09/23 | Dance song, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kenya, Kiambu district, Kikuyu, Kikuyu, Ndenderu, Kariuki, ILAM | A dance song, Njama for old men. "My daughter's hut is thatched with reeds and the bushy tails of cows". The song has ten verses, the first three repeated. The accent or stress on the ultimate syllable, instead of on the penultimate, might indicate mission influence in this song. Local linguists would be able to determine this point. Further details refer ILAM field card number: D6T 8
- Artist(s): Kikuyu boys | Composer: Kariuki Ndenderu (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | Dance song, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kariuki Ndenderu, Kikuyu, Kikuyu, Njama Dance song, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number: CR3613.
- Composer: Munyithya wa Kyenze (Composer/Performer) | 1950/09/25 | 1-string lute, East African, Kamba, Kenya, Lute, Machakos, Mbebe, Munyithya wa Kyenze, ILAM | Love SongFurther details refer ILAM field card (D6V3a)
- Composer: Munyithya wa Kyenze (Composer/Performer) | 1950/09/25 | East African, Kamba, Kenya, Love song, Munyithya wa Kyenze, String lute, ILAM | Translated English title- "I truly love you.". Further details refer ILAM record field card number XYZ5558a
- Artist(s): Sukuma men | Composer: Thungu Giti (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | Dance song, East African, Giti,Thungu, Nyamwezi, Phuwa dance song, Shinyanga, Sukuma, Sukuma, Tanganyika, Tanzania, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number: CR1505.
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