South African Music Archive Project
Folk music
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- Composer: Simoni Zambezi Chirumba (Performer) | 1949/09/21 | Drinking song, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Mozambique, Nsansi, Portuguese East Africa, Sena, Simoni Zambezi Chirumba, Tete, Tonga, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card no. C5S10b.
- Artist(s): Kikuyu boys (Performer) | Composer: Kariuki Ndenderu (Performer) | 1950/09/23 | Dance song, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kariuki Ndenderu, Kenya, Kikuyu, Kikuyu, Nairobi, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Njama dance song. Further details refer ILAM fieldcard D6T3.
- Artist(s): Kariuki Ndenderu and Kikuyu boys (Performer) | Composer: Composer not specified | 1950/09/23 | Dance song, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kenya, Kiambu district, Kikuyu, Kikuyu, Ndenderu, Kariuki, ILAM | A dance song, Njama for old men. "My daughter's hut is thatched with reeds and the bushy tails of cows". The song has ten verses, the first three repeated. The accent or stress on the ultimate syllable, instead of on the penultimate, might indicate mission influence in this song. Local linguists would be able to determine this point. Further details refer ILAM field card number: D6T 8
- Artist(s): Kikuyu boys | Composer: Kariuki Ndenderu (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | Dance song, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kariuki Ndenderu, Kikuyu, Kikuyu, Njama Dance song, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number: CR3613.
- Artist(s): Nyoro (Performer) | Composer: Samuiri Bitadwa (Performer)Composer not specified | 1951-00-00 | Central African, Dance music, Dance song, Drum, Ebinyege rattle, Folk music, Indigenous music, Nyoro, Nyoro, Orunyege dance, Samuiri Bitadwa, Uganda, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record (Commercial Recordings) number: CR0029
- Composer: Lengare Sakarani (Performer) | 1950/10/04 | bell, Chaga, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kiliminjaro, Leg bell, Marangu, Praise song, Sakarani,Lengare, Shicheyere, Tanganyika, Tanzania, ILAM | Folk music - Praise song with Shicheyere leg bells and accompnied by Chaga men.Further details refer ILAM field card (D7E1)
- Artist(s): Chaga men (Performer) | Composer: Lengare Sakarani (Composer)Chaga men (Performer) | 1950/10/04 | Chaga, Chaga, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Sakarani,Lengare, Shicheyere leg bells, Tanganyika, Tanzania, ILAM | Praise song for the Mangi (Chief). Further details refer to ILAM field card D7E
- Artist(s): Chaga men (Performer) | Composer: Mireiyo Sanganga (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950/10/05 | Chaga, Chaga, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kilimanjaro, Loyalty song, Marangu, Mireiyo Sanganga, Stick, Tanganyika, Tanzania, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: D7F-3
- Composer: The Guitar Twins (Performer)Phineas Maphumulo (Composer) | 1951-00-00 | Folk music, Guitar, Guitar Twins, Indigenous music, Phineas Maphumulo, South Africa, Southern African, Zulu, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number: CR3361.
- Composer: K.Madimabe (Performer)Madimabe, K. (Performer) | 1948/03/14 | Chuana, Folk music, Indigenous music, K. Madimabe, Madimabe,K., Marabi song, Ngwato, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Folk music - Marabi song with guitar. Further details refer ILAM field card (Q2)
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