South African Music Archive Project
Folk music
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- Artist(s): Wanga men (Performer) | Composer: Wanga, C. (Performer)Charles Wanga (Performer) | 1950/09/11 | bells, Clapping, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kenya, Lament, Leg bells, Luyia, Nyanza, Wanga, Wanga, Wanga,Charles, ILAM | Marabi town dance for men and women with leg bells and clapping. Further details refer ILAM field card (D6H11)
- Composer: Zande elephant drivers ("cornacs") (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952/08/03 | Andudu, Belgian Congo, Central African, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, elephant drivers (cornacs), Folk music, Indigenous music, Republic of the Congo, Unaccompanied, Vongara, Work Song, Zande, Zande, ILAM | inging the elephants back from the water. Further details refer ILAM field card number: F4G 5
- Composer: Medje Men (Performer) | 1952/08/07 | Belgian Congo, bell, Central African, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Drum, Folk music, Indigenous music, Medje, Medje, metal, Rattle, Wedding song, ILAM | Marriage Dance. Further details refer to ILAM card no F4I1
- Artist(s): Tumbuka men (Performer) | Composer: Tumbuka women (Performer) | 1950/05/23 | Folk music, Henga, Indigenous music, Kasungu, Malawi, mortar, Nyasaland, pestle, Pounding song, Southern African, Tumbuka, Tumbuka, ILAM | Pounding song with mortar and pestles. Further details refer ILAM field card (D2G12)Translated English title - "All this pounding for nothing." Further details refer ILAM field card (DY9)
- Artist(s): Tumbuka men (Performer) | Composer: Tumbuka women (Performer) | 1950/05/23 | Folk music, Henga, Indigenous music, Kasungu, Malawi, mortar, Nyasaland, pestle, Pounding song, Southern African, Tumbuka, Tumbuka, ILAM | Pounding song with mortar and two pestles. Further details refer ILAM field card (DY9)
- Artist(s): Tumbuka men (Background) | Composer: Tumbuka women (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950/05/23 | East African, Folk music, Henga, Indigenous music, Kasungu, Malawi, Mortar and two pestles, Nyasaland, Pounding song, Tumbuka, Tumbuka, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card no. DY-9.
- Artist(s): Arabic school children (Performer) | Composer: Mwalimu Farai (Composer)Arabic boys and girls (Performer) | 1950/10/13 | Arab, Arabic, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kenya, Mwalimu Farai, School song, ILAM | School song with Arabic school children. Further details refer to ILAM field card D7N
- Composer: Lenje Singers (Performer)T. Ndende (Leader)Composer not specified | 1954-00-00 | Folk music, Hunting song, Indigenous music, Lenje, Lenje Singers, Nkana, Northern Rhodesia, Southern African, T. Ndende, Zambia, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number: CR3527.
- Composer: Kantundi, O. (Performer)Olipa Kantundi (Performer) | 1949/08/08 | Bisa, Drinking song, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kantundi,Olipa, Northern Rhodesia, Southern African, Unaccompanied, Zambia, ILAM | Unaccompanied drinking song with Bisa men and women. Translated English title - "I have hurt my foot on the stump". Further details refer ILAM field card (C4A13).
- Artist(s): Kipsigis men and girls | Composer: Kipterer Arap Kenick (Performer) | 1950/09/15 | Dance tune, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kenik,Kipterer Arap, Kenya, Kericho, Kipsigis, Kipsigis, Whistle, ILAM | Katuiyo dance song for men and women. Further details refer ILAM field card no. D6L9.
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