South African Music Archive Project
Folk music
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- Artist(s): Tswa men (Performer) | Composer: Josefu Manyisa (Performer)Composer not specified | 1949/06/12 | Dance song, East African, Folk music, Hlengwe, Indigenous music, Josefu Manyisa, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Semba, Southern African, Tswa, Tswa, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Semba dance music. Further details refer ILAM field card number: CV-2
- Artist(s): Nyamwezi women (Performer) | Composer: Uwilulo (Performer) | 1950/06/25 | Daressalaam, Divination song, East African, Folk music, Gourd, Indigenous music, Magic, Nyamwezi, Nyamwezi, Rattle, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Uswezi, Uwilulo, ILAM | Two Uswezi divination song with references to magic. It is accompanied by gourd rattles. Refer ILAM field card D3F4
- Composer: Nontombi Dlamini and Her Party (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952-00-00 | Dlamini,Nontombi, Folk music, Indigenous music, South Africa, Southern African, Zulu, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number: TS0521.
- Artist(s): Lulua women (Performer) | Composer: Composer not specifiedChenda Esite (Performer) | 1949/08/10 | Belgian Congo, Central African, Chenda Esite, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Folk music, Gourd, Indigenous music, Luba, Lulua, Lulua, Mourning song, Republic of the Congo, Singing Gourd, Zaire, ILAM | Further information refer ILAM field card number: C4C-5
- Composer: Tonga men and women (Performer)Composer not specified | 1949/06/14 | Clapping, Dance song, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Southern African, Tonga, Tonga, Zore dance, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: CX-1
- Artist(s): Two Bemba men. | Composer: Sisifino Mutane (Performer) | 1952/01/11 | Bemba, Bemba, Drinking song, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kasama, Mbira, Northern Rhodesia, Sisifino Mutane, Southern African, Zambia, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card no. F1C18.
- Artist(s): Bemba men (Performer) | Composer: Composer not specifiedNtomba, J. (Performer)Mulenga, F. (Performer) | 1949-00-00 | Bemba, Bemba, Dance music, Drinking song, Fiwaya, Folk music, Indigenous music, Mulenga,Filimoni, Mupukumo, Northern Rhodesia, Ntabomba,Joseph, Party song, Rattle, Southern African, Zambia, ILAM | Mupukumo dance music. Further detail refer ILAM shellac record number: TP0661-XYZT4033
- Composer: Karanga Tribe (Performer)Composer not specified | 1933-00-00 | Bikita, Folk music, Indigenous music, Karanga, Southern Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM library number: A68.
- Composer: Nyanja girls (Performer) | 1950/05/22 | Chewa, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kasungu, Malawi, Nyanja, Nyanja, Nyasaland, Poetry, Song, Southern African, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Unaccompanied poem song. Further details refer ILAM field card number DX4
- Artist(s): P. M. Mango | Composer: Gypsy Melody Makers of East London (Performer)Composer not specified | 1951-00-00 | Folk music, Gypsy Melody Makers of East London, Mango,P.M., South Africa, Southern African, Xhosa, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR3186.
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