South African Music Archive Project
East African
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- Composer: Baiyani Medurek (Performer) | 1950/10/02 | Arusha, Cattle song, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Masai, Medurek,Baiyani, Tanganyika, Tanzania, ILAM | Folk music - Osingolio longishu cattle song with Arusha men.Further details refer ILAM field card (D7C3)
- Artist(s): Baiyani Medurek (Performer/Lead)Arusha men (Performer) | Composer: Baiyani Medurek (Performer/Lead)Arusha men (Performer) | 1950/10/02 | Arusha, Arusha, cattle, East African, Masai, Medurek,Baiyani, Osingolio Longishu, Song, Tanganyika, Tanzania, ILAM | Osingolio Longishu cattle song in which performers boast about their singing skills and popularity with the girls. Refer ILAM field card D7C3
- Artist(s): Arusha men | Composer: Bayani Medurek (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | Arusha, Arusha Baraza, Arusha District, East African, Folk music, Masai, Medurek,Baiyani, Tanganyika, Tanzania, ILAM | An Osingolio Longishu cattle song. "Whenever you walk around the country never forget that I am the best singer and the one most loved by the girls."Several handsome young men sang the solos and all boasted of their charms.
- Artist(s): Asumani bini Sumaili (Composer/Performer) | Composer: Asumani bini Sumaili (Composer/Performer) | 1950-00-00 | Asumani Bini Sumaili, dance, East African, Gudimba, Song, Tanganyika, Tanzania, traditional, women, Yao, Zither, ILAM | Gudimba dance song for women, accompanied by the zither. ILAM field card number is unknown
- Composer: Asumani Bini Sumaili (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952-00-00 | Asumani Bini Sumaili, Cindimba dance song, Dance song, East African, Iringa, Pango zithe, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Yao, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number CR1491.
- Artist(s): Nyanja men (Performer) | Composer: Ngoleka (Performer)Composer not specified | 1949-00-00 | Drinking song, East African, Indigenous music, Malawi, Ngoleka,G.P., Nyanja, Nyanja, Nyasaland, Southern African, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record number: TP1206
- Artist(s): Nyanja men (Performer) | Composer: G.P.Ngoleka (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | Dance song, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Machitso, Malawi, Ngoleka,G.P., Nyanja, Nyanja, Nyasaland, Southern African, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Machito dance song, (Song after hunting) "I can here the cock, it is now morning". Further details refer ILAM field card number DN-7
- Composer: Nangwali, R. (Performer)Nangwali, R. (Composer)er) | 1949/09/13 | banjo, Concert song, East African, Guitar, Malawi, Nangwali,R., Nyasaland, Southern African, Yao, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: C5K-16
- 1960-00-00 | Belgian Congo, East African, Indigenous music, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR3729.
- Artist(s): Lugobe (Performer)Nyamwezi men and women (Performer) | Composer: Lugobe (Performer)Nyamwezi men and women (Performer) | 1950/07/18 | chief, East African, Four conical Drum, Greeting, Laced and footed Drum, Lugobe, Nyamwezi, Nyamwezi, Song, Tanganyika, Tanzania, traditional, ILAM | Greeting song for a chief, accompanied by 4 drums. The English title for the song is The great one who should be revered. Refer ILAM field card number D4C1
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