South African Music Archive Project
Folk music
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- Artist(s): Yao and Nyanja girls (Performer) | Composer: Ellie Lyabunya (Performer) | 1950/05/11 | Blantyre, Clapping, Dance song, Ellie Lyabunya, Folk music, Indigenous music, Malawi, Nyanja, Nyanja, Nyasaland, Southern African, Yao, ILAM | Likwata dance song for women and girls. Further details refer ILAM field card no. DM14.
- Artist(s): Mulope, A. (Leader)Albert Mulope (Leader) | Composer: Sons of Barotseland Patriotic Society Choir (Performer) | 1952/01/12 | Albert Mulope, Barotseland, Folk music, Indigenous music, Lozi, Mulope,A., Sons of Barotseland Patriotic Society Choir, Southern African, Story Song, ILAM | Story song. Further details refer ILAM field card (F1D3)
- Composer: Morija Training College Choir (Performer)Composer not specified | 1965-00-00 | Folk music, Indigenous music, Morija Training College Choir, South Africa, Southern African, Zulu, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number: TS0571.
- Composer: Constance Magogo (Performer)Composer not specified | 1955-00-00 | Constance Magogo Uzulu ka-Dinuzulu, Folk music, Historic song, Indigenous music, KwaZulu-Natal, Musical bow, Natal, South Africa, Southern African, Uguba bow, Vocal, Zulu, Zululand, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: H1D 6
- Artist(s): Constance Magogo Uzulu ka-Dinuzulu (Performer)Mnayamana, Chief Buthelezi's grandfather (Composer) | Composer: Constance Magogo Uzulu ka-Dinuzulu | 1955/01/27 | bow, Chordophone, Constance Magogo Uzulu ka-Dinuzulu, Folk music, Historic song, Indigenous music, Mnayamana - Chief Buthelezi's grandfather, Single string, South Africa, Southern African, Traditional music, Ugubu, Unbraced, Zulu, ILAM | Traditional Zulu song accompanied by the musical bow. The translated title is "The bone of the snake'. Further details refer ILAM field card number H1D6
- Composer: Buthelezi Tribesman (Performer)Chief Gatsha Buthelezi (Leader)Composer not specified | 1965-00-00 | Buthelezi Tribesman, Chief Gatsha Buthelezi, Folk music, Indigenous music, South Africa, Southern African, Zulu, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number: TS1054.
- Composer: Buthelezi Tribesman (Performer)Chief Gatsha Buthelezi (Leader)Composer not specified | 1952-00-00 | Buthelezi Tribesman, Chief Gatsha Buthelezi, Folk music, Indigenous music, South Africa, Southern African, Zulu, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number: TS1150.
- Composer: Fountain Motshilia (Performer and Composer) | 1960-00-00 | concertina, Folk music, Fountain Motshilia, Indigenous music, South Africa, Southern African, Zulu, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number: CR3678.
- Artist(s): Mambuti Pygmy men (Performer) | Composer: Mambuti Pygmy men (Performer) | 1952/07/25 | Belgian Congo, Central African, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African, Folk music, Mambuti Pygmies, Mbuti, Pygmy, Whistles, ILAM | Hunting song. Further details refer to ILAM field card F4B
- Artist(s): Mambuti Pygmy men (Performer) | Composer: Mambuti Pygmy men (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952/07/25 | Belgian Congo, Beni, Central African, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Drum, Folk music, Hunting song, Indigenous music, Mambuti Pygmies, Mbuti, Republic of the Congo, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM field card F4B 4
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