South African Music Archive Project
Folk music
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- Artist(s): Bemba men (Performer) | Composer: Composer not specifiedKaniki, A.K. (Performer) | 1949/08/08 | Bemba, Bemba, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kaniki,A.K., Northern Rhodesia, Southern African, Unaccompanied, Wedding song, Zambia, ILAM | Translated English title - "Do not look at my scaly back. I am her father." Further information refer ILAM field card number: C4A-18
- Artist(s): Chinda Kamwana (Performer) | 1952/05/24 | Accordion, Chinda Kamwana, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kenya, Kiamuthambi, Kikuyu, Kikuyu territory, Struck iron, Topical song, ILAM | A topical song with accordian and struck iron. The accordian is used as a ground which creates a happy noise but has little, if any, melodic or harmonic relationship to the tonality or mode of the voice.Song to accompany a town dance in which men and women dance together in pairs, after the fashion of Europeans.Further details refer ILAM field card number: F3B 6
- Composer: Kadhari wa Marere (Performer) | 1952/05/25 | Accordion, Dance song, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kadhari wa Marere, Kenya, Kikuyu, Mombasa, Struck iron, ILAM | Mwomboro dance music. Further details refer ILAM fieldcard F3C-14.
- Composer: Dasane Ibanda (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952/06/23 | East African, Folk music, Guitar, Ibanda,Dasane, Indigenous music, Jinja, Love song, Soga, Uganda, ILAM | Translated English title - "My heart thinks of you." Further details refer ILAM field card number: F3P 13
- Composer: Gideon Mkize's Dance Orchestra (Performer)Composer not specified | 1951-00-00 | Folk music, Gideon Mkize, Gideon Mkize's Dance Orchestra, Guitar, South Africa, Southern African, Zulu, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number: CR3284.
- Composer: Peggy Tracey (Narrator)Shirazi Men (Performer) | 1900-01-00 | East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Shirazi, Swahili, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Tracey, Peggy, Zanziba, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM reel number: BC59.
- 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)
- Artist(s): M Banda (Leader)Portuguese East Africa Chopi Band (Performer) | Composer: M BandaPortuguese East Africa Chopi Band | 1966-00-00 | Banda,M., Chopi, Chopi, Cyclical, ensemble, Folk music, Indigenous music, Marimba, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Portuguese East Africa Chopi Band, Repetition, Southern African, Traditional music, ILAM | Intrumental piece performed on marimbas
- Artist(s): Z. A. Chihota | Composer: R.L.D. Choir (Performer)Composer not specified | 1951-00-00 | Chihota,Z.A., Chinyanja, East African, Folk music, Malawi, Nyasaland, R.L.D. Choir, Southern African, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR3159.
- Artist(s): Nyapose Nyakutowa (Leader) | Composer: Chopi musicians and dancers (Performer)Nyapose Nyakutowa (Composer) | 1955/10/05 | Chopi, Chopi, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Mozambique, Nyapose Nyakutowa, Orchestra, Portuguese East Africa, Rattle, Southern African, Timbila, Xylophone, Zavala, ILAM | Movement from Ngodo de Regulo with Timbila xylophone orchestra and rattles. Further details refer ILAM field card (H1N6)
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