South African Music Archive Project
Folk music
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- Artist(s): Hehe people (Performer) | Composer: Mwai Ahasha (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | Clapping, Dance song, East African, Folk music, Hehe, Hehe, Indigenous music, Kiduo dance, Mwai Ahasha, Tanganyika, Tanzania, ILAM | Kiduo dance song for women at wedding ceremonies. Further details refer ILAM record no. TP1528.
- Artist(s): Hehe women (Performer) | Composer: Mwanahasha (Performer) | 1950/06/13 | Clapping, East African, Folk music, Hehe, Hehe, Indigenous music, Iringa, Kiduo dance, Mwanahasha, Tanganyika, Tanzania, ILAM | Wedding song. Further details refer ILAM fieldcard D2T6
- Artist(s): Celia Hlatwayo (Leader) | Composer: Ndau children (Performer)Composer not specified | 1951/06/23 | Celia Hlatwayo, Children's song, Chipinga, Folk music, Indigenous music, Ndau, Ndau, Poetry, Song, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Unaccompanied, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: E2T 1
- Composer: Xhosa girls (Performer)Composer not specified | 1957/05/10 | Ciskei, Clapping, Dance song, Eastern Cape, Folk music, Indigenous music, Mhlahlo dance, Natal, Ngaika, Party song, South Africa, Southern African, Transkei, Vocals, Xhosa, Xhosa, Zululand, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: L1K 8
- Composer: Bakia Pierre (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952/09/02 | Buta, Central African, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Folk music, Indingenous music, Kundi, Northern Congo, Pierre,Bakia, Topical song, Vertical angular harp, Zande, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number F4W-9.
- Composer: Makimilani Mpuluka (Performer) | 1949/09/13 | Folk music, Lomwe, Makimilani Mpuluka, Malawi, Nyasaland, Southern African, Zomba, ILAM | Boys initiation music
- Artist(s): Hangaza women (Performer) | Composer: Serina Mako (Performer) | 1950/08/01 | East African, Folk music, Hangaza, Hangaza, Indigenous music, Mako,Serina, Ngala, Rundi, Song, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Topical song, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Topical song, unaccompanied. Further details refer ILAM field card (D4R12).
- Artist(s): Walter Arum (Performer)Kisii Government School Choir (Performer) | Composer: Walter ArumKisii Government School Choir | 1950/09/12 | Arum,Walter, Dho Luo, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kenya, Kisii Government School choir, Lament, mourning, Song, Traditional music, ILAM | Lament. Further details refer ILAM field card number D6I4
- Composer: Peggy Tracey (Narrator)Hugh Tracey (Narrator)Feliciano (Performer) | 1900-01-00 | East African, Feliciano, Folk music, Guitar, Indigenous music, Mozambique, Portuguese, Portuguese East Africa, Southern African, Tracey, Hugh, Tracey, Peggy, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM reel number: BC59.
- Composer: Dombashawa School boys (Performer) | 1949/10/04 | Dombashawa School, Drum, Dumbell, Folk music, Indigenous music, Mutumba, Physical training song, Salisbury, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Zezuru, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Physical training song with dumbells and Mutumba drum. Translated English title - "Miningwa has gone into the bush." Further details refer ILAM field card (C6F5a)
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