South African Music Archive Project
Folk music
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- Composer: Boys, Domboshawa School (Performer)Domboshawa School boys (Performer) | 1949/10/04 | Dombashawa School, Drum, Dumbell, Folk music, Indigenous music, Physical training song, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Zezuru, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Indigenous folk tune used for physical training. Translated English title - "Miningwa has gone into the bush." Further details refer ILAM field card (C6F5a)
- Composer: Domboshawa School boys (Performer)Composer not specified | 1949/10/04 | Dombashawa School, Drum, Dumbell, Folk music, Indigenous music, Mutumba, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Zezuru, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Physical training music without vocals with Mutumba drum and dumbells. Translated Further details refer ILAM field card number: C6F-5
- Composer: Domboshawa School boys (Performer)Composer not specified | 1949/10/04 | Dombashawa School, Drum, Dumbell, Folk music, Indigenous music, Mutumba, Physical training song, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Zezuru, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Physical training song with Mutumba drum and dumbells. Translated English title - "Miningwa will go into the bush." Further details refer ILAM field card number: C6F-5
- Artist(s): Sukuma men (Performer) | Composer: Thungu Giti (Performer) | 1950/07/25 | Dance song, East African, Folk music, Giti,Thungu, Indigenous music, Nyamwezi, Phuwa, Puba, Shinyanga, Sukuma, Sukuma, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Puba / Phuwa dance song for men and women, unaccompanied. Translated English title - "Run, Zagambayo, run." Further details refer ILAM field card (D4H9)
- Artist(s): Sukuma men (Performer) | Composer: Thungu Caiti (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | Dance song, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Lake Victoria, Nyamwezi, Phuwa dance, Sukuma, Sukuma, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Thungu Caiti, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record number: TP1667
- Artist(s): Yao men (Performer) | Composer: Ngoleka, G.P. (Performer) | 1950/05/12 | Blantyre, Chindimbo, Dance song, Folk music, Indigenous music, Malawi, Nyasaland, Nyoleka,G.P., Southern African, Unaccompanied, Yao, Yao, ILAM | Chindimbo dance song, unaccompanied. Further details refer ILAM field card (DN5)
- Artist(s): Zaramo men (Performer) | Composer: Mashaka Kawambwa (Performer)Kitamba Kilaka (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | Dance song, Drum, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kawambwa,Mashaka, Kilaka,Kitamba, Madogoli dance, Rattle, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Zaramo, Zaramo, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record number: TP1567
- Composer: Hugh Tracey (Narrator)Peggy Tracey (Narrator)Haya Men (Performer) | 1900-01-00 | Bukoba, Clapping, Drum, East African, Fishing party song, Folk music, Haya, Haya, Indigenous music, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Tracey, Hugh, Tracey, Peggy, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM reel number: BC60.
- Composer: Absolom and Frans (Performer and Composer) | 1900-01-00 | Absolom, Folk music, Frans, Indigenous music, Portuguese Shangaan, Southern African, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number: CR3700.
- Composer: Zaramo men (Performer) | 1950/06/24 | Dance music, Daressalaam, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Rattle, Stick, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Viyanzi, Zaramo, Zaramo, ILAM | Folk music - Pipe dance with Viyanzi vertical flut,Fiction sticks and Tin rattles.Further details refer ILAM field card (D3E3)
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