South African Music Archive Project
Folk music
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- Artist(s): Nyamwezi men and women | Composer: Tatu Ali (Performer) | 1950/06/25 | Ali,Tatu Binti, Daressalaam, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Love song, Nguja, Nyamwezi, Swahili, Tanganyika, Tanzania, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card no. D3F8.
- Composer: Abyssinian Eight (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | Abyssinian Eight, Folk music, Sotho, South Africa, Southern African, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR3104.
- Composer: Josiasi Yemba Mate (Performer and Composer)Composer not specifiedJosiasi Yemba Mate (Performer)Josiasi Yemba Mate (Composer) | 1952/02/21 | Barotseland, Dance song, Folk music, Indigenous music, Josiasi Yemba Mate, Kathandi mbira, Luanika, Mbira, Mbunda, Mongu, Northern Rhodesia, Southern African, topical, Topical song, Zambia, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: F2B 7Translated English title - "The Mask Dance." Further details refer ILAM field card number: F2B 7
- Artist(s): Sukuma men and women (Performer) | Composer: Welelo Sucha (Performer) | 1950/07/30 | Dance song, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Nyamwezi, Puba, Shinyanga, Sukuma, Sukuma, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Unaccompanied, Welelo Sucha, ILAM | Puba dace song for boys and girls, unaccompanied. Further details refer ILAM field card (D4P2).
- Artist(s): Sukuma men (Performer) | Composer: Welelo Sucha (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | Clapping, Dance song, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Nyamwezi, Puba dance, Shinyanga, Sukuma, Sukuma, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Welelo Sucha, ILAM | Translated English title - "I failed to fight the Masai." Further details refer ILAM shellac record number: TP1765
- Artist(s): Two Drummers (Performer) | Composer: Ngoyi Trido (Performer)Bayu Isak (Performer)Composer not specified | 1949/07/05 | Belgian Congo, Central African, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Drum, Folk music, Indigenous music, Isak,Bayu, Luba, Malimba makaji, Malimba malumi, Marimba, Rattle, Republic of the Congo, Trido,Ngoyi, Wedding song, Xylophone, Zaire, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: C2S-18
- Artist(s): Hangaza women (Performer) | Composer: Serina Mako (Performer) | 1950/08/01 | Clapping, East African, Folk music, Hangaza, Hangaza, Indigenous music, Mako,Serina, Ngala, Rundi, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Topical song, ILAM | Topical song with clapping. Further details refer ILAM field card (D4R11)
- Artist(s): A group of Giryama men | Composer: Chembe wa Majibi (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952/05/23 | Chembe wa Majibi, Clapping, Dance song, East African, Folk music, Giryama, Giryama, Indigenous music, Kalifi, Kenya, Namba dance, rattles, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: F3A 2
- Artist(s): Tumbuka girls (Performer) | Composer: Taines Chirwa (Performer)Mwenele Kaunda (Performer)Nancy Luhana (Performer) | 1950/05/31 | Chirwa,Taines, Folk music, Henga, Indigenous music, Kaunda,Mwenela, Luhana,Nancy, Malawi, mortar, Mzimba, Nyasaland, pestle, Pounding song, Southern African, Tumbuka, Tumbuka, ILAM | Pounding song with mortar and pestles. Further details refer ILAM field card (D2G11)
- Composer: Buthelezi Tribesman (Performer)Chief Gatsha Buthelezi (Leader) | 1965-00-00 | Buthelezi, Chief Gatsha Buthelezi, Folk music, Indigenous music, South Africa, Southern African, Zulu, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number: TS0618.
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