South African Music Archive Project
Folk music
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- Artist(s): Sukuma men (Performer) | Composer: Wonkhama Sekenge (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | Busatsi dance, Dance song, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Lake Victoria, Nyamwezi, Sekenge,Wonkhama, Sukuma, Sukuma, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record number: TP1669
- Composer: Chisanga, T. (Performer)Tekela Chisanga (Performer) | 1949/08/07 | Bemba, Chisanga,Tekela, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kitwe, Northern Rhodesia, Southern African, Story Song, Zambia, ILAM | Story song with Bemba girls. Further details refer ILAM field card (C3Z10).
- Artist(s): Haya men (Performer) | Composer: Eliasi Karuandila (Performer) | 1950/08/04 | Bukoba, East African, Eliasi Karuandila, Folk music, Haya, Haya, Indigenous music, Nyoro, Story Song, Tanganyika, Tanzania, ILAM | Story song. Further details refer ILAM field card (D4V11).
- Composer: Ingeruzabahizi team of Abuiiru drummers (Performer) | 1951/01/30 | Abuiiru, Central African, Drum, East African, East-Central African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Ingeruzabahizi, Rwanda, Rwanda, Urundi, ILAM | Drum rhythms with 15 drums. Further details refer ILAM field card (F1Q1)
- Artist(s): Bahutu men (Performer) | Composer: Sekivura (Performer) | 1952/07/21 | Bahutu, Central African, Clapping, East African, Folk music, Rwanda, Rwanda, Sekivura, Trough zitther, Urundi, ILAM | Party song. Further details refer to ILAM field card F3Z
- Artist(s): Bahutu men (Performer) | Composer: Sekivura (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952/07/21 | Bahutu, Central African, East African, Folk music, Inanga trough zithe, Indigenous music, Party song, Ruanda, Rugerero, Rwanda, Sekivura, Urundi, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: F3Z 2
- Composer: Wilberforce Institute Singers (Performer)F. H. Gow (Conductor)Composer not specified | 1930-00-00 | F.H. Gow, Folk music, South Africa, Southern African, Wilberforce Institute Singers, Xhosa, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number: CR3751.
- Artist(s): Ngindo women (Performer) | Composer: Mawasu Binti Mponda (Performer)Fatuma Binti Meri (Performer) | 1950/06/25 | Daressalaam, Divination song, East African, Fatuma Binti Meri, Folk music, Indigenous music, Mawasu Binti Mponda, Ndonde, Ngindo, Ngindo, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field record no. AC0312.
- Artist(s): Ngindo women (Performer) | Composer: Mawasu Binti Mponda (Performer)Fatuma Binti Meri (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950/06/25 | Curative song, Daressalaam, East African, Fatuma Binti Meri, Folk music, Indigenous music, Mawasu Binti Mponda, Ndonde, Ngindo, Ngindo divination song, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: D3F 10
- Composer: Nganzakwenye Shandu (Performer) | 1955/01/28 | bow, Folk music, Indigenous music, Makhweyana, Nganzakwenye Shandu, self-delectative, Song, South Africa, Southern African, Zulu, Zululand, ILAM | Self delectative song accompanied by the Makhwenyana braced musical bow. Refer ILAM field card H1E6a
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