South African Music Archive Project
Southern African
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- Composer: Zululand War Dancers (Performer)Composer not specified | 1930-00-00 | Dance song, Indigenous music, KwaZulu-Natal, Natal, South Africa, Southern African, Unaccopmpanied, Vocal, Zulu, Zulu, Zululand, Zululand War Dancers, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR0891
- Composer: Mwandiwasa, E. (Performer)Ediwini Mwandiwasa (Performer) | 1949/09/12 | Bottle, Entertainment song, Guitar, Malawi, Mwandiwasa,Ediwini, Nyanja, Nyasaland, Southern African, Zomba, ILAM | Entertainment song accompanied by guitar and bottle. Translated English title - "We hear the boys complaining that we cannot dance." Further details refer ILAM field card (C5J15)
- Artist(s): Duma men (Performer) | Composer: Shoko, J. (Performer)Jeke Shoko (Performer) | 1949/10/14 | Bikita, Duma, Duma, Folk music, Huzi Bikita, Indigenous music, Karanga, Shoko,Jeke, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Story Song, Unaccompanied, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Story song, unaccompanied with Duma men. Further details refer ILAM field card (C6P14)
- Composer: Kanyoa Quartet (Performer) | 1951/06/14 | Guitar, Kanyoa Quartette, Morality song, Shona, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Zezuru, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Morality song with guitar. Further details refer ILAM field card (E2K9)
- Composer: Kanyoa Quartette (Performer and Composer) | 1951/06/13 | Guitar, Kanyoa Quartette, Morality song, Salisbury, South Rhodesia, Southern African, Zezuru, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card no. E2J-1.
- Composer: Paseli, B. (Composer)Bari Paseli (Composer)Paseli Brothers (Performer)Bari Paseli (Performer)Black Paseli (Performer)Airini Paseli (Performer) | 1949/10/04 | banjo, Concert song, Guitar, Paseli Brothers, Paseli,Airini, Paseli,Bari, Paseli,Black, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Yao, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Concert song with guitar and banjo. Further details refer ILAM field card (C6F9)
- Composer: Bari Paseli (Composer)Paseli brothers (Performer) | 1949/10/04 | banjo, Concert song, Guitar, Malawi, Northern Rhodesia, Nyasaland, Paseli Brothers, Paseli,Bari, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Yao, Zambia, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Further information refer ILAM field card number: C6F-9
- Composer: Paseli Brothers (Performer)Composer not specified | 1905/05/07 | Drum, Guitar, Indigenous music, Malawi, Nyasaland, Paseli Brothers, Southern African, Vocal, Yao, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR12248
- Artist(s): Muntano Gomez o Feliciano | 1955/08/10 | Chibuto district, Gomez o Feliciano, Muntano, Guitar, Hlanganu, Indigenous music, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Southern African, Sul do Save Province, Tonga, Topical song, ILAM | Topical song with guitar. " At your home you give a person to the spirit Sikwembo. But at my house we only give a chicken to Sikwembo. Then we kill a second chicken and cook sadza porridge so that the spirit's fowl may come and eat both the sadza and the cooked fowl." The song refers to an argument between a man and wife and the diviner through whom the spirit is approached.Details from ILAM record number TP4274-H1P16
- Composer: Laison Tawatali (Performer) | 1949/09/13 | Bangwe, Bangwe wa mkulu, Laisoni Tawakwali, Malawi, Nyasaland, Southern African, Yao, Zomba, ILAM | Dance music for Kuvina dance for boys and girls
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