South African Music Archive Project
Dance music
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- Artist(s): Nyamwezi women (Performer) | Composer: Lugobe (Performer) | 1950/07/18 | Dance music, Drum, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Lugobe, Nyamwezi, Nyamwezi, Tabora, Tanganyika, Tanzania, ILAM | Manyanga dance song for men and women. Further details refer ILAM field card (D4C3)
- Artist(s): Friends of Kamwena Jean (Performer) | Composer: Kamwema Jean (Performer and Composer) | 1952/01/26 | Belgian Congo, Birinya Dance, Central African, Congo, Dance music, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Folk song, Guitar, Indigenous music, Kamwema Jean, Ngala, ILAM | Translated English title- "Fathers Kasanda and Muka". Further details refer ILAM field card number F1M-4
- Artist(s): Vocal accompaniment (Performer) | Composer: Lambert Kabeya (Performer) | 1952/02/03 | Belgian Congo, Central African, Congo, Dance music, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guitar, Jadotville, Lambert Kabeya, Swahili, Town dance, ILAM | Town dance with guitar and vocal accompaniment. Further details refer ILAM field card (F1T10)
- Composer: Spokes Mashiyane His Hum-A- Zoo & Rhythm (Performer)Spokes Mashiyane (Composer) | 1905/05/13 | Dance music, Flute, Guitar, Hum-A- Zoo & Rhythm, Jive, Mashiyane, Spokes, Southern African, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR1045
- Artist(s): Zulu men and women (Performer) | Composer: Mnyamana (Composer)Constance Magogo (Performer) | 1955/01/27 | Constance Magogo Uzulu ka-Dinuzulu, Dance music, Historic song, KwaZulu-Natal, Mahlabatini, Mnyamana, Natal, South Africa, Southern African, Stamping, Zulu, Zulu, Zululand, ILAM | Historic song with stamping feet. Translated English title - "The bone of the snake." Further details refer ILAM field card (H1D7)
- Composer: Robisoni Nangwale (Performer)Jere Chikomba (Performer) | 1950/05/14 | Blantyre, Chikomba,Jere, Dance music, Guitar, Malawi, Nangwale,Robison, Nyanja, Nyasaland, Southern African, Town dance, ILAM | Town dance song with guitar. Further details refer ILAM field card (DP1)
- Artist(s): Chaminuka Band (Performer) | Composer: August Msarurgwa (Performer) | 1952/02/20 | Bulawayo, Chaminuka Band, Dance Band, Dance music, Msarurgwa,August, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Town dance, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Translation: Give us tobacco. Further details refer ILAM field card (F2A10)
- Artist(s): Tonga men (Performer) | Composer: Chirwa, M. (Performer)Mutika Chirwa (Performer) | 1949/08/11 | Chirwa,Mutika, Dance music, Folk music, Indigenous music, Luanshya, Muwuso song, Northern Rhodesia, Southern African, Tonga, Tonga, Zambia, ILAM | Muwuso song for Malipenga dance with Tonga men. Further details refer ILAM field card (C4D14)
- Composer: Adam Salim and Party (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | Band music, Clarinet, Dance music, East African, Instrumental, Kenya, Popular music, Salim,Adam, Swahili, Tanganyika, Tanzania, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR0674
- Artist(s): Mawale Mandirefu (Performer) | Composer: Fakudu Maringulu (Performer) | 1955/01/09 | Chopi, Dance music, Drum, Fakudu Maringulu, Folk music, Indigenous music, Leg rattle, Mawale Mandirefu, Mozambique, Ngoma, Portuguese East Africa, Rattle, Southern African, ILAM | Ngadanga dance music. Further details refer ILAM field card (H1B6)
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