South African Music Archive Project
Folk music
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- Artist(s): Ila men and women (Performer) | Composer: Composer not specifiedTimoti Nakasakwe (Performer) | 1949/08/11 | Chingande, Dance song, Drum, Folk music, Ila, Ila, Indigenous music, Northern Rhodesia, Southern African, Timoti Nakasakwe, Zambia, ILAM | Chingade dance music. Translated English title - "Come and see us work the jack-hammers." Further information refer ILAM field card number: C4D-6
- Composer: Xhosa women (Performer)Composer not specified | 1957/05/10 | Ciskei, Clapping, Eastern Cape, Folk music, Indigenous music, Lullaby, Ngaika, South Africa, Southern African, Transkei, Vocals, Xhosa, Xhosa, ILAM | Translated English title - "Hush baby." Further details refer ILAM field card number: L1K 10
- Artist(s): Sukuma men and women (Performer) | Composer: Lugingisi Mwanaguthondo (Performer) | 1950/07/26 | East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Lugingisi Mwanaguthondo, Mwanza, Nyamwezi, Sukuma, Sukuma, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Threshing Song, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Threshing song, unaccompanied. Further details refer ILAM field card (D4K16).
- Composer: Chisabi, B (Performer)Benson Chisabi (Performer) | 1949/07/28 | Bemba, Chisabi,Benson, Drinking song, Folk music, Indigenous music, Mufulira, Northern Rhodesia, Southern African, Zambia, ILAM | Drinking song by Bemba men at Mufulira Mine Compound. Translated English title - "We must marry their husbands to spite their jealous wives". Further details refer ILAM field card no. C3P18.
- Composer: Composer not specifiedBemba men (Performer) | 1949-00-00 | Bemba, Bemba, Drinking song, Drum, Folk music, Indigenous music, Northern Rhodesia, Southern African, Zambia, ILAM | Further detail refer ILAM shellac record number: TP0659-XYZT4030
- Composer: Henga men (Performer)W. K. Chirwa (Leader)Composer not specified | 1952-00-00 | Chirwa,Waddy Kajawa, Dance song, Drum, Folk music, Henga, Henga, Indigenous music, Luanshya, Malipenga dance song, Northern Rhodesia, Southern African, Tumbuka, Zambia, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number: CR3533.
- Artist(s): Nyika boys (Performer) | Composer: Kalachu Mwinyi (Performer) | 1950/09/23 | East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kalachu Mwinyi, Kambo, Kenya, Kilifi, Nika, Nyika, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Topical song. Further details refer ILAM fieldcard D6T5.
- Artist(s): Nyamwezi men and women (Performer) | Composer: Idi Selemani (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950/06/25 | Clapping, Daressalaam, East African, Folk music, Humorous, Idi Selemani, Indigenous music, Nyamwezi, Nyamwezi, Praise song, Song, Tanganyika, Tanzania, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: D3F 9
- Artist(s): Swahili men (Performer) | Composer: Omari Saidi (Performer) | 1950/07/04 | Box Rattle, Dance song, East African, Folk music, Friction stick, Indigenous music, Marimba, Mkwaju dance, Nguja, Omari Saidi, Swahili, Swahili, Xylophone, Zanziba, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: D3O-6
- Composer: Group of 14 Lwena men and 1 woman (Performer)Zebeda Simou (Leader)Composer not specified | 1957/07/03 | Belgian Congo, bell, Bottle, Central African, Chisanzhi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Elizabethville, Folk music, Luvale, Lwena, Lwena, Succession of Chiefs, Zebeda Simou, ILAM | Further details refer record number: TP3952
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