South African Music Archive Project
Folk music
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- Composer: Chrisesitomu Gingo (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952/06/20 | Chrisesitomu Gingo, East African, Flute tune, Folk music, Ganda, Indigenous music, Kampala, Kasangati, Ndere flute, Uganda, ILAM | Translated English title - "The brake of the bicycle is tied tightly." Further details refer ILAM field card number: F3N 21
- Artist(s): Haya people (Performer) | Composer: Felisiano Kamugula (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | Dance song, Drum, East African, Felisiano Kamugula, Folk music, Haya, Haya, Indigenous music, Nyoro, Rattle, Ruyaigo dance, Tanganyika, Tanzania, ILAM | Ruyaigo dance song for boys and girls. Further details refer ILAM record no. TP1838.
- Composer: Musicians of Chief Biniga (Performer) | 1952/07/15 | Central African, Dance music, Drum, East African, East-Central African, Folk music, Horn, Imihamilizo, Indigenous music, Makondere, Musicians of Chief Biniga, Ruanda-Urundi, Rwanda, Rwanda, Shangugu, Tutsi, ILAM | Imihamilizo tutsi dance song with drum and Makondere horn. Further details refer ILAM field card (F3V5)
- Composer: Twa musicians of Chief Biniga (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952/07/15 | Central African, Chief Biniga's musicians, Dance song, Drum, East African, Folk music, Imihamilizo Tutsi dance, Indigenous music, Makondera horn, Ruanda, Rwanda, Shangugu, Twa, Urundi, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: F3V 5
- Composer: Zande elephant drivers ("cornacs") (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952/08/03 | Andudu, Belgian Congo, Central African, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, elephant drivers (cornacs), Folk music, Indigenous music, Republic of the Congo, Unaccompanied, Vongara, Work Song, Zande, Zande, ILAM | Taking the elephants to the water. Further details refer ILAM field card number: F4G 5
- Composer: Hugh Tracey (Narrator)Congolese Men (Performer) | 1900-01-00 | Central African, Congo, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Folk music, Indigenous music, Lingala, Northern Congo, Tracey, Hugh, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM reel number: BC37.
- Artist(s): Orchestra Opera du ler groupement (Performer)Musique du ler groupement (Performer) | 1952/02/06 | Belgian Congo, Central African, Congo, Cymbal, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Drum, East African, Elisabethville, Folk music, Horns, Ngala, Orchestra Opera, Rattle, Trumpets, ILAM | Rumba dance song. Further details refer to ILAM field card F1V
- Composer: The Blue Hams Choir (Performer)Composer not specified | 1951-00-00 | Blue Hams Choir, Folk music, Indigenous music, Johannesburg, South Africa, Southern African, Vocal Mbube, Zulu, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number TP3490-2011.
- Composer: Maphophoma School Choir Nongoma (Performer)W. J. Mseleku (Composer) | 1960-00-00 | Folk music, Maphophoma School Choir Nongoma, Mseleku,W.J., South Africa, Southern African, Zulu, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number: TS0713.
- Composer: Idi Selemani (Performer) | 1950/06/28 | Clapping, Daressalaam, East African, Folk music, Humorous, Idi Selemani, Indigenous music, Nyamwezi, Song, Tanganyika, Tanzania, ILAM | Folk music - Humorous song with clapping and Nyamwezi men and women.Further details refer ILAM field card (D3I5)
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