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  1. Composer: Zaramo men (Performer) | 1950/06/24 | Dance music, Daressalaam, East African, Flute, Folk music, Indigenous music, Rattle, Stick, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Viyanzi, Zaramo, Zaramo, ILAM | Folk music - Pipe dance with Viyanzi vertical flut,Fiction sticks and Tin rattles.Further details refer ILAM field card (D3E4)
  2. Artist(s): Zaramo boys (Performer) | Composer: Pembe Selemani (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | Dance song, Daressalaam, East African, Flute, Folk music, Friction stick, Indigenous music, Pembe Selemani, Pipe dance, Rattle, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Tin rattle, Viyanzi flute, Zaramo, Zaramo, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record number: TP1570
  3. Composer: Jean Kota (Performer)Group of Lunda women (Performer)Composer not specified | 1957/07/28 | Belgian Congo, Central African, Dance song, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Drum, Folk music, Handclapping, Jadotville, Jean Kota, Lunda, Lunda, Party dance song, ILAM | Further details refer record number: TP3959
  4. Artist(s): Sena women (Performer) | Composer: Simoni Zambezi Chirumba (Performer)Composer not specified | 1949/09/21 | Chiwele, Dance song, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Mbira, Mozambique, Nsansi Mbira, Portuguese East Africa, Sena, Sena, Simoni Zambezi Chirumba, Southern African, Tonga, Yodelling, ILAM | Chiwele dance song with Mbira. Further details refer ILAM field card number: C5S-6
  5. Composer: Makwinya, N. (Performer)Nalundo Makwinya (Performer) | 1949/09/04 | Bangwe, Board zither, Folk music, Indigenous music, Makwinya,Nalundo, Malawi, Nyanja, Nyasaland, Pangwe, Salima, Southern African, Zither, ILAM | Dance song for Masewela dance for men and women with Bangwe (Zither). Translated English title - "God should hate me, not my friend." Further details refer ILAM field card (C5B2)

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