South African Music Archive Project
Folk music
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- Artist(s): Mawale Mandirefu (Performer) | Composer: Fakudu Maringulu (Performer) | 1955/01/09 | Chopi, Dance music, Drum, Fakudu Maringulu, Folk music, Indigenous music, Leg rattle, Mawale Mandirefu, Mozambique, Ngoma, Portuguese East Africa, Rattle, Southern African, ILAM | Ngadanga dance music. Further details refer ILAM field card (H1B6)
- Composer: Robinson Deep Ronga Choir (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | East African, Folk music, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Robinson Deep Ronga Choir, Ronga, Southern African, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR3193.
- Composer: Kwake (Performer) | 1955/01/09 | Clapping, Dance song, Drum, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kwake, Natal, South Africa, Southern African, Zulu, ILAM | Dance song. Further details refer ILAM field card (H1B8)
- Composer: Composer not specifiedBemba men (Performer) | 1949-00-00 | Bemba, Bemba, Dance music, Folk music, Hunting song, Indigenous music, Northern Rhodesia, Southern African, Unaccompanied, Zambia, ILAM | Further detail refer ILAM shellac record number: TP0657-XYZT4028
- Composer: Mwanjila Nsolo (Performer) | 1950/06/09 | East African, Folk music, Ilimba, Indigenous music, Limba, Mbira, Mwanjila Nsolo, Nkonde, Nostalgic song, Nyakyusa, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Tukuyu, ILAM | Nostalgic song with seven note Ilimba (Mbira). Translated English title - "Let us go home to Mwankenja." Further details refer ILAM field card (D2R1)
- Composer: Mwajila Nsolo (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950/06/09 | Bead, East African, Folk music, Ilimba, Indigenous music, Mbira, Mwajila Nsolo, Nkonde, Nostalgic song, Nyakusa, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Tukuyu, ILAM | Translated English title - "Let us go home to Mwankenja." Further details refer ILAM field card number: D2R 1
- Artist(s): Shirazi men (Performer) | Composer: Subeti Sunda (Performer)Composer not specified | 1900-01-00 | Dance song, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Marimba, Nguja, Pondo dance, Shirazi, Subeti Sunda, Swahili, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Xylophone, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record number: TP1650
- Artist(s): Subeti Salim Saidi (Leader) | Composer: Subeti Sunda (Performer) | 1950/07/03 | Dance song, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kayamba, Marimba, Nguja, Ponda, Rattle, Shirazi, Subeti Salim Saidi, Subeti Sunda, Swahili, Xylophone, Zanzibar, ILAM | Ponda dance song for boys and girls with Marimba xylophone and Kayamba flat tin rattle. Further details refer ILAM field card (D3N3)
- Artist(s): Patela (Leader) | Composer: Shangaan dancers (Performer) | 1955/02/06 | Dance music, Folk music, Guija, Indigenous music, Mozambique, Patela, Portuguese East Africa, Shangaan, Shangaan, Southern African, Whistle, Zwebe-Kaya, ILAM | Dance song for Zwebe-Kwaya dance (fourth movement) with whistling through spout of oil can. Further details refer ILAM field card (H1H5)
- Composer: Miselo, G. (Performer)GibsoniMiselo (Performer) | 1949/08/08 | Drinking song, Folk music, Indigenous music, Lala, Miselo,Gibisoni, Nkana, Northern Rhodesia, Southern African, Unaccompanied, Zambia, ILAM | Drinking song with Lala men and women. Further details refer ILAM field card (C4A5).
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