South African Music Archive Project
Folk music
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- Artist(s): Three men | Composer: Menade Chirambe (Performer) | 1948/04/24 | Dance music, Drum, Folk music, Gourd, Indigenous music, Menade Chirambe, Mwera, Nyasa, Singing Gourd, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Tumbuka, Ullulation, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card no. AK12.
- Composer: Tswa Tumblers (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952-00-00 | Drum, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Shangaan, Southern African, Tswa, Tswa Tumblers, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number: CR3396.
- Composer: Chokwe men (Performer)Group of Chor we menComposer not specified | 1952/01/29 | Central African, Chianda dance, Chokwe, Chokwe, Congo, Dance song, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dilolo, Drum, Folk music, Indigenous music, Republic of the Congo, Southern Congo, ILAM | Translated in English 'The weeper'. Further details refer ILAM field card number FIP-5
- Composer: Arab men (Performer) | 1950/10/12 | Arab, Arabic, Clapping, Dance music, Drum, East African, Folk music, Kenya, Malindi, ILAM | Folk music - Shabuyani dance song with Arab men, dums and clapping.Further details refer ILAM field card (D7M2)
- Artist(s): Mohammed Shaban (Leader) | Composer: Arab men (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950/10/12 | Arab, Arabic, Clapping, Dance song, Drum, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kenya, Malindi, Shaban,Mohammed, Shabuwani dance, Stick, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: D7M-2
- Artist(s): Luvale men (Performer) | Composer: Lufunda, S. (Performer)Soloci Lufunda (Performer) | 1949/08/08 | Folk music, Indigenous music, Lufunda,Soloci, Luvale, Luvale, Mourning song, Nkana, Northern Rhodesia, Southern African, Unaccompanied, Zambia, ILAM | Mourning song after the burial. Further details refer ILAM field card (C4A8)
- Artist(s): Ngoi Nono (Performer)Kabongo Kalanga (Performer) | 1957/07/24 | Bottle, Central African, Congo Belge, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African, Folk music, Guitar, Kalanga,Kabongo, Luba, Nono,Ngoi, Small rattle, Songe, Whistle, ILAM | Topical song. "Masenga of the Bena Nomba". Further details refer to ILAM shellac record number TP3964
- Composer: Tonga women and girls (Performer) | 1955/10/11 | Bilene, Clapping, Dance song, Drum, East African, Folk music, Hlanganu, Indigenous music, Macia, Masesa, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Rattle, Southern African, Tonga, Tonga, Whistle, ILAM | Dance song for Masesa dance with a rattle, clapping, drumming and whistle. Further details refer ILAM field card (H1R7)
- Composer: Tonga girls (Performer) | 1955/10/11 | Bilene, Clapping, Dance song, East African, Folk music, Hlanganu, Indigenous music, Macia, Masesa, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Southern African, Tonga, Tonga, Whistle, ILAM | Dance song for Masesa dance with clapping, drumming and whistle. Further details refer ILAM field card (H1R11)
- Artist(s): Girls from Macia village (Performer) | Composer: Girls from Macia village | 1955/10/11 | Clapping, dance, Folk music, Macia village, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Shangaan, Song, Southern African, Tonga, Traditional music, Two cylindrical oil can Drum, Whistles, ILAM | A Masesa dance song accompanied by whistles and pegged drums made of oil cans. The dancers wore skirts made of lala palm. Further details refer ILAM field card number H1R11
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