South African Music Archive Project
Folk music
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- Artist(s): Kipsigis girls (Performer) | Composer: Chepkorir (Performer) | 1950/09/15 | Chepkorir, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kenya, Kipsigis, Kipsigis, Kipsigis, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Lament song. Further details refer ILAM fieldcard D6L29
- Composer: Marcus Dela (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952-00-00 | East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Marcus Bala, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Shangaan, Southern African, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number: CR3357.
- Composer: Marcus Dela (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952-00-00 | East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Marcus Bala, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Shangaan, Southern African, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number: CR3357.
- Artist(s): Waddy Kajawa Chirwa (Leader) | Composer: Composer not specifiedTumbuka men (Performer) | 1949/08/11 | Chirwa,Waddy Kajawa, Dance song, Drum, Folk music, Henga, Indigenous music, Malawi, Malipenga, Muwuso, Nyasaland, Southern African, Tumbuka, Tumbuka, ILAM | Muwuso song for Malipenga dance. Translated English title - "Now we start our song." Further information refer ILAM field card number: C4D-2
- Composer: Small Kipsigis girls (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950/09/15 | East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kenya, Kipsigis, Kipsigis, Kipsigis, Topical song, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number D6L-11b.
- Composer: Musa Maruf (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | Daff, East African, Folk music, Harmonium, Indigenous music, Musa Maruf, Southern African, Swahili, Tabla, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number: CR3786.
- Composer: Conference Setlogelo and Co (Performer)Composer not specified | 1951-00-00 | Conference Setlogelo, Folk music, Indigenous music, South Africa, Southern African, Xhosa, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number: CR2945.
- Artist(s): Kipsigis girls (Performer) | Composer: Chepkorir (Performer) | 1950/09/15 | Chepkorir, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kenya, Kipsigis, Kipsigis, Kipsigis, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Children's song. Further details refer ILAM fieldcard D6L29a
- Artist(s): John Khoza (Leader)Women's Choir (Performer) | Composer: John KhozaWomen's Choir | 1960-00-00 | Autoharp, Choir, Chordophone, Folk music, Indigenous music, John Khosa, Man calling and women respond, Repetition, Shangaan, Shangaan harp, South Africa, Southern African, String, Traditional music, women, ILAM | Traditional song performed by a man and women. They are accompanied by a string instrument identified as a Shangaan harp. The harp is possibly an Autoharp
- Artist(s): Sukuma men (Performer) | Composer: Sanyenke Gethula (Performer) | 1950/07/29 | East African, Fighting song, Folk music, Indigenous music, Mwanza, Nyamwezi, Sanyenke Gethula, Sukuma, Sukuma, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Fighting song, unaccompanied. Further details refer ILAM field card (D4O4).
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