South African Music Archive Project
Southern African
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- 1948/03/14 | Bechuanaland, Botswana, Lete, Mbira, Song, Southern African, Tswana, ILAM | Unclassified song wiyj Ndau Mbira accompaniment. Further details refer ILAM field card (R2)
- Composer: Union Express Company (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | Indigenous music, Rattle, Southern African, Union Express Company, Vocal, Zulu, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR3229.
- Composer: Muizesse Timba (Performer and Composer) | 1956-00-00 | East African, Guitar, Indigenous music, Muizesse Timba, Shangaan, Southern African, Tsonga, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number: CR2884.
- Composer: Christ King School Choir (Performer)Composer not specified | 1965-00-00 | Christ King School Choir, Folk music, Indigenous music, South Africa, Southern African, Wedding song, Zulu, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number: TS0144.
- Composer: Fabiao Dingani Mashawa (Performer) | 1955/10/11 | Bileni, Fabiao Dingani Mashawa, Hlanganu, Mbira, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Self delectative, Southern African, Tonga, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card no. H1R8.
- Artist(s): Fabiao Dingani Mashawa | 1955/10/11 | Bileni district, Fabiao Dingani Mashawa, Hlanganu, Mbira, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Southern African, Sul do Save Province, Tonga, ILAM | Self delectative song with mbira dza WaNdau. The performer is one of the few Tonga people who have learnt to play the Ndau instrument, the mbira dza WaNdau, which has travelled southwards since the time of the Shangaan chief Ngungunyana for whom the Ndau fought as a subservient tribe during the latter half of the nineteenth century. Several of the fighting men stayed in the south and married Tsonga women and their children have used the paternal instrument, singing to it traditional songs.Further details refer ILAM field card no. H1R-8.
- Composer: Babu (Performer)Dzimbanete (Performer)Composer not specified | 1933-00-00 | Babu, Dzimbanete, Indigenous music, Karanga, Shona, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Unaccompanied, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record number TP3724
- Composer: Salisbury Male Voice Choir (Performer)Composer not specified | 1951-00-00 | Folk music, Indigenous music, Salisbury Male Voice Choir, Shona, Southern African, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR3059.
- Composer: Fabiao Dingani Mashawa (Performer) | 1955/10/11 | Bilene, East African, Fabiao Dingani Mashawa, Folk music, Hlanganu, Indigenous music, Macia, Mbira, Mbira dza WaNdau, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Self-delectative song, Southern African, Tonga, ILAM | Self-delectative song with Mbira dza Ndau. Translated English title - "Mother-in-law." Further details refer ILAM field card (H1R12)
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