South African Music Archive Project
Folk music
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- Composer: Shangaan men (Performer)Composer not specified | 1949/05/29 | Bila, East African, Folk music, Ihubo, Indigenous music, Military song, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Regimental song, Shangaan, Southern African, Tonga, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: CH-4
- Composer: Shangaan men (Performer)Composer not specified | 1949/05/29 | Bila, East African, Folk music, Ihubo, Indigenous music, Military song, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Regimental song, Shangaan, Southern African, Tonga, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: CH-4
- Composer: Pancras Mkwawa (Performer)Anselm P. Mkwawa (Performer)Mkwawa (Performer) | 1950/06/14 | Anselm P. Mkwawa, East African, Folk music, Hehe, Humorous, Indigenous music, Iringa, Ligombo, Mkwawa, Pancras Mkwawa, Song, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Zither, ILAM | Folk music - Humorous song with Ligombo tube Zither (6 Strings)Further details refer ILAM field card (D2U9)
- Composer: Pancras Mkwawa (Performer) | 1950/06/14 | East African, Folk music, Hehe, Indigenous music, Iringa, Ligombo, Pancras Mkwawa, Tanganyika, Tanzania, ILAM | Humorous song. Further details refer ILAM field card (D2U9)
- Artist(s): Anselm P. Mkwawa (Performer) | Composer: Pancras Mkwawa (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950/06/14 | Anselm P. Mkwawa, East African, Folk music, Hehe, Indigenous music, Iringa, Ligombo zither, Pancras Mkwawa, Song, Tanganyika, Tanzania, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: D2U 9
- Composer: Sinyoro, C.M. (Performer)Chabarwa Musunda Sinyoro (Performer) | 1949/10/03 | Folk music, Indigenous music, Mbira, Njanja, Njari, Sinyoro,Chabarwa Musunda, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Topical song, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Topical song with Njari dza Manjaja (Mbira). Translated English title - "Leave your husband and come and dance." Further details refer ILAM field card (C6E3)
- Composer: Composer not specifiedChabarwa Musanda Sinyoro (Performer) | 1949/10/03 | Folk music, Indigenous music, Mbira, Njanja, Njari, Shona, Sinyoro,Chabarwa Musunda, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Topical song, Zezuru, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Translated English title - "Leave your husband and come and dance." Further details refer ILAM Shellac record number: TP0705
- Artist(s): Yelele Lunga (Leader)Nsenga women (Performer) | Composer: Yelele LungaNsenga women | 1949/08/29 | Central African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kalimba, Lunga,Yele, Lungu, mourning, Northern Rhodesia, Nsenga, Song, Ten notes, Traditional music, Yelele, Zambia, ILAM | Mourning song accompanied by the Kalimba mbira. The translated title is "I stood outside the door of the Chief". Further details refer ILAM field card number C4V3
- Composer: Que Sisters (Performer)Composer not specified | 1960-00-00 | Folk music, Jive, Que Sisters, Southern African, Zulu, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number: CR3636.
- Artist(s): Sukuma men (Performer) | Composer: Ernest Pole (Performer) | 1950/07/30 | Clapping, Dance song, East African, Ernest Pole, Folk music, Indigenous music, Nyamwezi, Puba, Shinyanga, Sukuma, Sukuma, Tanganyika, Tanzania, ILAM | Puba dace song for boys and girls with clapping. Further details refer ILAM field card (D4P1).
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