South African Music Archive Project
Folk music
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- Artist(s): Sukuma men and women (Performer) | Composer: Mazigwa Kaswende (Performer) | 1950/07/30 | East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Mazigwa Ka Wende, Nyamwezi, Shinyanga, Sukuma, Sukuma, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Topical song, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Topical song, unaccompanied. Further details refer ILAM field card (D4P3).
- Composer: Jaji Simba (Performer) | 1950/10/16 | Dance music, East African, Folk music, Giryama, Indigenous music, Jaji Simba, Kalifi, Kayamba, Kenya, Nika, Rattle, ILAM | Folk music - Msego dance song for men and women with Giryama men, accompanied with Kayamba raft rattles.Further details refer ILAM field card (D7Q2)
- Composer: Dundee Wandering Singers (Performer)Composer not specified | 1948-00-00 | Dundee Wandering Singers, Folk music, Indigenous music, South Africa, Southern African, Zulu, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number: CR3379.
- Artist(s): Lulua women (Performer) | Composer: Composer not specifiedChende Naomi (Performer) | 1949/08/10 | Belgian Congo, Central African, Chende Naomi, Chipiwidi, Congo, Dance song, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Folk music, Gourd, Indigenous music, Luba, Lulua, Lulua, Republic of the Congo, Singing Gourd, Zaire, ILAM | Chipwidi dance music. Further information refer ILAM field card number: C4C-8
- Artist(s): Luba men | Composer: Kayoka Ladislas (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952/02/10 | Belgian Congo, Central African, Chisanzhi mbira, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Elizabethville, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kayoka Ladislas, Luba, Luba, topical, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: F1Y 5
- Artist(s): Lenje men and women (Performer) | Composer: Faifi Machia (Performer)Composer not specified | 1949/08/15 | Drinking song, Faifi Machia, Folk music, Indigenous music, Lenje, Lenje, Northern Rhodesia, Southern African, Unaccompanied, Zambia, ILAM | Translated English title - "Clever women have broken my leg."Further details refer ILAM field card number: C4H-10
- Artist(s): Sephoto Mokoena (Performer) | Composer: Sephoto Mokoena | 1965-00-00 | concertina, Folk music, Indigenous music, Lesotho, Mokoena,Sephota, Popular music, Song, Sotho, South Africa, Southern African, Traditional music, ILAM | Song accompanied on the concertina
- 1953/11/15 | Folk music, Indigenous music, Mbira, Southern African, Zezuru, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM library number: A4.
- Composer: Thwalofu (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | concertina, Folk music, Indigenous music, South Africa, Southern African, Thwalofu, Zulu, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number: TS1245.
- Artist(s): Francois' friends | Composer: Francois Iyenga (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952/08/30 | Aketi, Belgian Congo, Central African, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ekembe, Folk music, Francois Iyenga, Indigenous music, Mbira, Topical song, Zande, ILAM | Further information refer ILAM field card number F4T-1.
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