South African Music Archive Project
Southern African
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- Composer: Boys at Blantyre Secondary School (Performer) | 1949/09/16 | Blantyre Secondary School, Folk song, Indigenous music, Malawi, Nyanja, Nyasaland, Southern African, ILAM | Concert Song. Further details refer ILAM card no C5N8
- Composer: Composer not specifiedNyanja boys (Performer) | 1949/09/16 | Bone, Concert song, Guitar, Malawi, Nyanja, Nyanja, Nyasaland, Rattle, Southern African, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM Shellac record number: TP0744
- Artist(s): Young girls (Performer)Nancy Luhama (Performer)Dandy Boys (Performer)Mwenela Kaunda (Performer) | Composer: Nancy Luhama (Performer)Mwenela Kaunda (Performer)Dandy Boys (Performer)Young girls (Performer) | 1950-00-00 | Call and response, Dandy Boys, Girls singing, Heya, Kaunda,Mwenela, Luhana,Nancy, Malawi, Mortar and pestle beats, Nyasaland, Song, Southern African, traditional, Tumbuka, ILAM | Song performed by young girls who are accompanied by beats on the mortar and pestle. The voices of the singers appear not to be those of the names mentioned on the record label. ILAM field card is unknown
- Composer: Nancy Luhana (Performer)Mwenele Kaunda (Performer) | 1950/05/31 | Folk music, Henga, Indigenous music, Kaunda,Mwenela, Luhana,Nancy, Malawi, mortar, Mzimba, Nyasaland, pestle, Pounding song, Southern African, Tumbuka, ILAM | Pounding song with mortar and pestles. Translated English title - "The girls have run away." Further details refer ILAM field card (D2G12)
- Artist(s): Nsenga men and women (Performer) | Composer: Lungu, K. (Performer)Kumbale Lungu (Performer) | 1949/08/29 | Dance song, Folk music, Indigenous music, Lungu,Kumbale, Marimba, Northern Rhodesia, Nsenga, Nsenga, Southern African, Ulimba, Xylophone, Zambia, ILAM | Dance song for men and women with ulimba and clapping. Further details refer ILAM field card (C4V7)
- Artist(s): Tumbuka men and women | Composer: Lily Nyachumya (Performer) | 1949/08/05 | Folk song, Kamanga, Nkana, Northern Rhodesia, Nyachumya,Lily, Southern African, Tumbuka, Tumbuka, Zambia, ILAM | Concert song
- Artist(s): Sena people (Performer) | Composer: Sino Kopolo (Performer)Composer not specified | 1949-00-00 | Chikunda, Dance song, East African, Indigenous music, Kayembe, Likuba, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Sena, Sena, Sino Kopolo, Southern African, ILAM | Likuba dance song with Kayembe. Further details refer ILAM shellac record number: TP1238
- Composer: Amoui Jenasa (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | Bangwe, Bangwe wa m'kulu, East African, Indigenous music, Jenasa,Amoui, Lament, Malawi, Nyanja, Nyasaland, Personal lament, Southern African, Zither, ILAM | Morality song with Bangwe wa m'kulu. Further details refer ILAM shellac record number: TP1331
- Artist(s): The traditional evening birds | Composer: The traditional evening birds | 1960/01/01 | Folk music, Indigenous music, Isicathamiya, Male Choir, Mbube, Part singing, South Africa, Southern African, Traditional evening birds, Traditional music, Unaccompanied, Zulu, ILAM | Unaccompanied traditional song performed by male choir
- Artist(s): Nsenga men and women (Performer) | Composer: Kumbale Lungu (Performer)Composer not specified | 1949/08/29 | Clapping, Dance song, Folk music, Indigenous music, Lungu,Kumbale, Northern Rhodesia, Nsenga, Nsenga, Southern African, Ulimba, Xylophone, Zambia, ILAM | Ulimba dance song with Ulimba xylophone and clapping. Translated English title - "It is the days which change a man." Further details refer ILAM field card number: C4V-8
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