South African Music Archive Project
West African
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- Artist(s): Calender (Leader) Maringar Band (Performer) | Composer: Calender (Performer)Maringar Band (Performer) | 1958-00-00 | Calendar, Call and response, Calypso, Creole, dance, Drum, Guitar, Indigenous music, Man singing, Maringar Band, Popular music, Rhythmic beats on bottle, Sierra Leone, Song, West African, ILAM | Calypso dance song performed by a small band of musicians
- Artist(s): Buddy Squire (Leader) | Composer: The Hot Shots (Performer)Composer not specified | 1958-00-00 | Band music, Buddy Squire, Drum, Ghana, Hot Shots, Popular music, Saxophone, Stick, Twi, West African, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR0753
- Artist(s): Friends of Chibanda Bandawin (Performer) | Composer: Chibanda Bandawini (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952/01/27 | Accordion, Baudouin,Chibanda, Bottle, Central African, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Elizabethville, Guitar, Kanyora, Topical song, West African, ILAM | Topical song. Further details refer ILAM field card number F1N-3
- Artist(s): ET Mensah (Leader)ET Mensah's Tempos Band (Performer) | Composer: ET Mensah's Tempos Band (Performer) | 1958-00-00 | Big band music style, Brass instruments, Clave rhythm, dance, Drum set, Fante, Ghana, Guitar, High Life, Instrumental, Mensah,E.T., Percusssion instruments, Popular music, Rhythm sticks, Tempos Band, West African, ILAM | High life dance music, performed on various instruments
- Artist(s): Buddy Squire (Leader) | Composer: The Hot Shots (Performer)Composer not specified | 1958-00-00 | Band music, Buddy Squire, Drum, Ga, Ghana, Hot Shots, Popular music, Saxophone, Stick, West African, ILAM | Translated English title - "Highlife." Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR0741Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR0741
- Composer: Calendar and his Maringar Band (Performer)Composer not specified | 1958-00-00 | Calendar, Calypso music, Creole, Guitar, Maringar, Maringar Band, Popular music, Vocal, West African, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR0747
- Artist(s): Young girls | Composer: Luunda women (Performer) | 1949/07/20 | Clapping, goblet Drum, Kambwali, Kawambwa, Lake Mwexa, Luunda, Luunda, Northern Rhodesia, West African, ILAM | Folk music. Girls initiation song with clapping. Further details refer to ILAM card (C3H)
- Composer: Composer not specifiedZande men and women | 1952/08/31 | Bandiya, Belgian Congo, Buta, Central African, Congo, conical cross laced Drum, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Double headed drum, Drum, Indigenous music, Nguru, North Congo, slit Drum, West African, Wooden clappers, Zaire, Zande, Zande, ILAM | Slit drum , 3 conical cross laced, double headed Drums, Wooden clappers. Further details refer to ILAM record number XYZ7609
- Composer: Calendar and his Maringar Band (Performer)Composer not specified | 1958-00-00 | Calendar, Calypso music, Creole, English, Guitar, Maringar, Maringar Band, Popular music, Vocal, West African, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR0752
- Artist(s): Ganda Women | Composer: Composer not specifiedAlima Binti Feluze (Performer) | 1920/04/01 | Alima Binti Feluze, Clapping, Daressalaam, East African, Ganda, Ganda, Indigenous music, Kampala, Party song, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Uganda, West African, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM filed card number XYZ6019
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