South African Music Archive Project
Southern African
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- Artist(s): Sukuma men (Performer) | Composer: Sanyenke Gethula (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | Fighting song, Folk music, Indigenous music, Mwanza, Nyamwezi, Sanyenke Gethula, Southern African, Sukuma, Sukuma, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record number: TP1754
- Composer: Josiasi Yemba Mate (Performer and Composer)Josiasi Yemba Mate (Performer)Josiasi Yemba Mate (Composer) | 1952/02/21 | Barotseland, Folk music, Indigenous music, Josiasi Yemba Mate, Kathandi mbira, Luanika, Mbira, Mbunda, Mongu, Northern Rhodesia, Southern African, topical, Topical song, Zambia, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: F2B 8Translated English title - "Do not push me around. I do not like to make trouble." Further details refer ILAM field card number: F2B 8
- Composer: Josiasi Yemba Mate (Performer and Composer) | 1952/02/21 | Bulawayo, Fan with external resonato, Josiasi Yemba Mate, Mbira, Mbunda, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Topical song, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card no. F2B8.
- Composer: Dick Ncube (Performer)Samson Ncube (Performer)Enoch Chuma (Performer)Composer not specified | 1951-00-00 | Chuma,Enoch, Guitar, Ncube,Dick, Ncube,Samson, Ndebele, South Rhodesia, Southern African, Topical song, Violin, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number TP2298.
- Composer: Wilberforce Institute Singers (Performer)F. H. Gow (Conductor)Composer not specified | 1930-00-00 | F. H. Gow, Folk music, Gow,F.H., Sotho, South Africa, Southern African, Wilberforce Institute Singers, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number: CR3751.
- Artist(s): Beti Kamanga (Performer) | Composer: Beti Kamanga (Performer) | 1950-00-00 | Bangwe zithe, Kamanga,Beti, Malawi, Man singing, Nyasaland, singing, Song, Southern African, Tonga, topical, traditional, ILAM | Topical song accompanied on the Bangwe zither. ILAM field card is unknown
- Composer: Kamanga, B. (Performer)Beti Kamanga (Performer) | 1950/05/29 | Bangwe, Chinteche, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kamanga,Beti, Malawi, Nkata Bay, Nyasaland, Raft zither, Southern African, Tonga, Topical song, Zither, ILAM | Topical song with Bangwe zither. Further details refer ILAM field card (D2E32)
- Composer: Beti Kamanga (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950/05/29 | Bangwe raft zither, East African, Folk song, Indigenous music, Kamanga,Beti, Malawi, Nyasaland, Southern African, Strings, Tonga, Topical song, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number D2E 32
- Artist(s): Muntano Gomez o Feliciano | 1955/10/08 | Chibuto district, Gomez o Feliciano, Muntano, Hlanganu, Lament, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Raft rattle, Southern African, Sul do Save Province, Tonga, ILAM | Lament with raft rattle. The rattle has seeds inside a hollow raft of stout grass stalks."They put poison in my beer and that is why I have nochild. I am very worried about the guitar. I do not like to meet anyone. I went to my doctor to make myself effective to get a child. I asked my uncle if he had seen the way I dance. Did the old people kill a man on account of his dancing - or does that only happen to me?"Details from ILAM field card H1P16
- Artist(s): Ellison Temba (Leader) | Composer: The African Swingsters (Performer)Isaac Zacks Nkosi (Composer) | 1967-00-00 | African Jive, African Swingsters, Band music, Double Bass, Drum, Nkosi,Isaac Zacks, Popular music, Southern African, Temba,Ellison, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR0605
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