South African Music Archive Project
Folk music
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- Artist(s): Dakeni Makuwana (Leader) | Composer: Shangaan women (Performer)Composer not specified | 1949/05/29 | Bila, Dakeni Makuwana, Dance song, Drum, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Masese, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Shangaan, Southern African, Tonga, ILAM | Masese dance music with drum. Further details refer ILAM field card number: CH-2
- Artist(s): John Khoza (Leader)Women's Choir (Performer) | Composer: John KhozaWomen's Choir | 1960-00-00 | Choir, Cyclical, Folk music, Indigenous music, John Khosa, Man calling and women respond, Repetition, Shangaan, Song, South Africa, Southern African, Traditional music, women, ILAM | Traditional song performed by a man and women. They are accompanied by a string instrument identified as a Shangaan harp. The harp is possibly an Autoharp
- Artist(s): Arab men (Performer) | Composer: Salim Zeydan (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950/10/12 | Arab, Arabic, Clapping, Drum, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kenya, Malindi, Stick, Wedding song, Zeydan,Salim, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: D7M-10
- Composer: Dombashawa School boys (Performer) | 1949/10/04 | Dombashawa School, Drum, Dumbell, Folk music, Indigenous music, Mutumba, Physical training song, Salisbury, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Zezuru, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Physical training song with dumbells and Mutumba drum. Translated English title - "The guinea fowl walks like this." Further details refer ILAM field card (C6F5b)
- Composer: Domboshawa School boys (Performer)Boys, Domboshawa School (Performer) | 1949/10/04 | Dombashawa School, Drum, Dumbell, Folk music, Indigenous music, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Zezuru, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Indigenous folk tune used for physical training. Translated English title - "The guinea fow walks like this." Further details refer ILAM field card (C6F5b)
- Composer: Domboshawa School boys (Performer)Composer not specified | 1949/10/04 | Dombashawa School, Drum, Dumbell, Folk music, Indigenous music, Mutumba, Physical training song, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Zezuru, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Physical training song with Mutumba drum and dumbells. Translated English title - "The guineafowl walks like this." Further details refer ILAM field card number: C6F-5
- Composer: Griffiths Motsieloa and co. (Performer)Composer not specified | 1951-00-00 | Folk music, Motsieloa,Griffiths, Sotho, South Africa, Southern African, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR2999.
- 1952/07/25 | Belgian Congo, Central African, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African, Folk music, Likembe mbira, Nande, ILAM | Self-delectative song. Instrumental. Further details refer to ILAM field card F4B
- Composer: Ngayamiso Kitunga (Performer) | 1950/07/18 | East African, Folk music, Harusi, Indigenous music, Instrumental, Likembe, Mbira, Ngayamiso Kitunga, Nyamwezi, Tabora, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Wedding tune, ILAM | Harusi wedding tunes played on the Likembe mbira. Refer ILAM field card D4C16
- Composer: Ngayamiso Kitunga (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | East African, Folk music, Harusi Wedding Tunes, Indigenous music, malimba, Mbira, Ngayamiso Kitunga, Nyamwezi, Tanganyika, Tanzania, ILAM | Halusi Wedding Tune. Further details refer ILAM shellac record number TP1700
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