South African Music Archive Project
Folk music
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- Artist(s): Haya men (Performer) | Composer: Kabyoma Mashuloma (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950/08/04 | Bukoba, Drum, East African, Folk music, Haya, Indigenous music, Kabyoma Masulamo Haya, Nyoro, Praise song, Stick, Tanganyika, Tanzania, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: D4V 13
- Composer: James Phillips | 1982-11-00 | English, FOLK MUSIC, Folk music, James Phillips, MUSIC, South Africa, Shifty Records | Demo made in Grahamstown while studying BMUS degree at Rhodes University in 1982. Recorded on cheap cassette machine.
- Composer: Teacher's Training School (Performer)Composer not specified | 1951/06/23 | Chipinga, Folk music, Indigenous music, Ndau, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Teachers' Training College, Unaccompanied, Working song, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Translated English title - "I can dig." Further details refer ILAM field card number: E2T 3
- Artist(s): Nyika boys (Performer) | Composer: Lukas Mbaru (Performer) | 1950/09/23 | Chopi, Dance song, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kayamba, Kenya, Kilifi, Lukas Mbaru, Nyika, Nyika, ILAM | Raba dance song. Further details refer ILAM fieldcard D6T6.
- Artist(s): Arab men (Performer) | Composer: Salim H. Mbarak (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950/10/12 | Arab, Arabic, Clapping, Dance song, Drum, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kenya, Malindi, Salim H. Mbarak, Shabuwani dance, Stick, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record number: TP2179-XYZ5616
- Composer: Salim H. Mbarak (Performer) | 1950/10/12 | Arabic, Clapping, Dance music, Drum, East African, Folk music, Kenya, Malindi, Salim H. Mbarak, ILAM | Folk music - Shabuyani dance song with Arab men, dums and clapping.Further details refer ILAM field card (D7M9)
- Artist(s): Francois Iyenga's friend (Performer) | Composer: Francois Iyenga (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952/08/30 | Bondo, Central African, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Folk music, Francois Iyenga, Indigenous music, Likembe mbira, NorthCongo, Topical song, Zande, ILAM | Further information refer ILAM field card number F4T-2
- Artist(s): Sukuma men (Performer) | Composer: Thungu Giti (Performer) | 1950/07/23 | Dance song, East African, Folk music, Giti,Thungu, Indigenous music, Nyamwezi, Nzega, Phuwa, Puba, Sukuma, Sukuma, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Puba / Phuwa dance song for men and women, unaccompanied. Translated English title - "Run, Zagambayo, run." Further details refer ILAM field card (D4H10).
- Artist(s): Sukuma men (Performer) | Composer: Thungu Caiti (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | Dance song, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Lake Victoria, Nyamwezi, Phuwa dance, Sukuma, Sukuma, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Thungu Caiti, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record number: TP1666
- Composer: Zhou, M. (Performer)Muchuru Zhou (Performer) | 1949/10/13 | Clapping, Duma, Folk music, Indigenous music, Karanga, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Story Song, Zaka, Zhou,Muchuru, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Story song, with clapping. Further details refer ILAM field card (C6O6)
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