South African Music Archive Project
Folk music
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- Artist(s): Sukuma men (Performer) | Composer: Sanyenke Gethula (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | East African, Fighting song, Folk music, Indigenous music, Mwanza, Nyamwezi, Sanyenke Gethula, Sukuma, Sukuma, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record number: TP1755
- Artist(s): Sukuma men (Performer) | Composer: Sanyenke Gethula (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | Fighting song, Folk music, Indigenous music, Mwanza, Nyamwezi, Sanyenke Gethula, Southern African, Sukuma, Sukuma, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record number: TP1754
- Composer: Josiasi Yemba Mate (Performer and Composer)Josiasi Yemba Mate (Performer)Josiasi Yemba Mate (Composer) | 1952/02/21 | Barotseland, 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 8Translated English title - "Do not push me around. I do not like to make trouble." Further details refer ILAM field card number: F2B 8
- Composer: Wilberforce Institute Singers (Performer)F. H. Gow (Conductor)Composer not specified | 1930-00-00 | F. H. Gow, Folk music, Gow,F.H., Sotho, South Africa, Southern African, Wilberforce Institute Singers, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number: CR3751.
- Composer: Kamanga, B. (Performer)Beti Kamanga (Performer) | 1950/05/29 | Bangwe, Chinteche, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kamanga,Beti, Malawi, Nkata Bay, Nyasaland, Raft zither, Southern African, Tonga, Topical song, Zither, ILAM | Topical song with Bangwe zither. Further details refer ILAM field card (D2E32)
- Composer: Uliwa Choir (Performer)Charam B. Monthali (Conductor)Composer not specified | 1951-00-00 | Charam B. Monthali, Chinyanja, East African, Folk music, Nyasaland, South Africa, Southern African, Uliwa Choir, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR3147.
- Composer: Nyembane dancers | 1955/03/06 | Corrugated iron, Dance song, Drum, Folk music, Indigenous music, Mozambique, Nyembane, Nyembane, Portuguese East Africa, South Africa, Southern African, Tonga, Transvaal, Zore, ILAM | Zore dance song accompanied by various types of drums and beating with sticks on corrugated iron. Refer ILAM field card H1H12
- Composer: Saadani Abdu Kandaro (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Mashairi, Nguja, Poetry, Saadani Abdu Kandaro, Song, Swahili, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Mashairi Song Poems. Further details refer ILAM shellac record number TP1696
- Composer: Manyoni Zhou (Performer)Simoni Mashoko Shawa (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950/05/02 | Chilimanzi, Folk music, Govera, Indigenous music, Karanga, Maridza mbira, Mbira, Muhera, Njari, Shawa,Simoni Mashoko, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Topical song, Zhou,Manyoni, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Translated English title - "Long ago we paid taxes." Further details refer ILAM Field card number: DD 2
- Composer: Baiyani Medurek (Performer) | 1950/10/02 | Arusha, Cattle song, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Masai, Medurek,Baiyani, Tanganyika, Tanzania, ILAM | Folk music - Osingolio longishu cattle song with Arusha men.Further details refer ILAM field card (D7C3)
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