South African Music Archive Project
Folk music
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- Artist(s): Nourse Mines Basutos (Performer) | Composer: Nourse Mines Basutos | 1900-01-00 | Chorus, Folk music, Girlfriend, Indigenous music, Nourse Mines Basutos, praise, Ramakhobotlo, recitative, Song, Sotho, South Africa, Southern African, Traditional music, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Praise song for a girlfriend, sung in recitative style
- Composer: Chishala, S (Performer)Samuel Chishala (Performer) | 1949/08/20 | Bemba, Chishala,Samuel, Dance song, Drum, Folk music, Indigenous music, Lusaka, Northern Rhodesia, Southern African, Zambia, ILAM | Dance song for Zomba dance for boys and girls. Translated English title - "That's why you are this way". Further details refer ILAM field card no. C4M8.
- Composer: Jonas Bambata (Performer)Composer not specified | 1951-00-00 | Folk music, Jonas Bambata, South Africa, Southern African, Zulu, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number: CR2995.
- Artist(s): Nyakyusa men (Performer) | Composer: Karani Mwambogo (Performer) | 1950/06/09 | Drinking song, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Karani Mwaitebele, Nyakusa, Nyakyusa, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Tukuyu, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Drinking song, unaccompanied. Further details refer ILAM field card (D2R4)
- Artist(s): Chikunda men | Composer: Dizano Phimbi (Performer) | 1949/09/20 | Chikunda, Chikunda, Dizano Phimbi, Folk music, Indigenous music, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Rattle, Sena, Southern African, Tete, ILAM | Nqoteka dance music for men and women
- Artist(s): Luvale men and women (Performer) | Composer: Composer not specifiedLuvulu Kapango (Performer) | 1949/08/07 | Bemba, Dance song, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kacaca, Luvale, Luvale, Luvulu Kapango, Northern Rhodesia, Southern African, Unaccompanied, Zambia, ILAM | Kacaca dance music. Translated English title - "The chief's headgear has been stolen." Further information refer ILAM field card number: C43Z-27
- Composer: Luvale Singers (Performer)L. Kapango (Leader)Composer not specified | 1952-00-00 | Chibuluma, Dance song, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kacaca Dance song, L. Kapango, Luvale, Luvale, Northern Rhodesia, Southern African, Zambia, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number: CR3529.
- Composer: Luvale Singers (Performer)L. Kapango (Leader)Composer not specified | 1952-00-00 | Chibuluma, Dance song, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kacaca Dance song, L. Kapango, Luvale, Luvale, Northern Rhodesia, Southern African, Zambia, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number: CR3514.
- Composer: Moyo, M. (Performer)Mukomondera Moyo (Performer) | 1951/06/27 | bow, Chizambi, Folk music, friction bow, Karanga, Moyo,Mukomondera, Self-delectative song, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Zaka, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Self-delectative song with Chizambi friction bow. Further details refer ILAM field card (E2X5)
- Composer: Salisbury Male Voice Choir (Performer)Composer not specified | 1951-00-00 | Folk music, Salisbury Male Voice Choir, Shona, Southern African, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR3065.
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