South African Music Archive Project
Folk music
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- Composer: Idi Selemani (Performer) | 1950/06/28 | Daressalaam, East African, Folk music, Humorous, Idi Selemani, Indigenous music, Nyamwezi, Song, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Folk music - Unaccompanied humorous song with and Nyamwezi men and women.Further details refer ILAM field card (D3I9)
- Composer: Nyanja men (Performer)L. Maonga (Leader) | 1952-00-00 | banjo, Bass Drum, Concert song, Folk music, Guitar, Indigenous music, Malawi, Maonga,Loida, Nyanja, Nyanja, Nyasaland, Southern African, Zomba, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number: CR3494.
- Composer: Twala and Co (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | Folk music, Indigenous music, South Africa, Southern African, Twala and Co, Zulu, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number: CR2972.
- Composer: Orchestre Opera (Performer) | 1952/02/06 | Belgian Congo, Central African, Cornet, Cymbal, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Drum, Elisabethville, Folk music, Indeginous music, Ngala, Orchestra Opera, Orchestral music, Rattle, Trombone, trumpet, ILAM | Rumba music. Further details refer ILAM fieldcard F1V-12.
- Composer: Meriki Fumbe (Performer) | 1951/06/06 | Bangwe, Bulawayo, Folk music, Humorous, Indigenous music, Meriki Fumbe, Sena, Song, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Translated English title - "Mama I am worried". Further details refer ILAM field card no. E2C11.
- Composer: Meriki Fumbe (Performer) | 1951/06/06 | Bangwe, Bulawayo, Folk music, Homorous, Indigenous music, Meriki Fumbe, on board zither with ten strings, Petrol thin resonato, Sena, South Rhodesia, Southern African, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Translated English title: "Mama I am worried". Further details refer ILAM field card no. E2C-11.
- Artist(s): Zaramo boys (Performer) | Composer: Ramazani Mfaumbe (Performer) | 1950/06/25 | Daressalaam, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Ramazani Mfaumbe, Story Song, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Zaramo, Zaramo, ILAM | Story song. Further details refer ILAM field card (D3F13)
- Composer: The Wesley House Quarttete of Fort Hare (Performer)Composer not specified | 1951-00-00 | Folk music, South Africa, Southern African, Wesley House Quartette of Fort Hare, Xhosa, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR3079.
- Composer: Nsengu women (Performer) | 1949/08/29 | Folk music, Indigenous music, Northern Rhodesia, Nsenga, Nsengu, Pounding song, Southern African, Zambia, ILAM | Pounding song for women. Further details refer ILAM field card (C4V17)
- Composer: Ngalula Esitele (Performer)Esitele, N. (Performer) | 1949/07/29 | Esitele,N., Folk music, Indigenous music, Luba, Mourning song, Mufulira, Ngalula Esitele, Northern Rhodesia, Southern African, Zambia, ILAM | Folk music - Mourning song with four women. Further details refer ILAM field card (C3Q7b).
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