South African Music Archive Project
Folk music
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- 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-10a
- Artist(s): Haya men (Performer) | Composer: KKyomile Kabanyolekile (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | Clapping, Drum, East African, Folk music, Haya, Haya, Indigenous music, Kyomile Kabanyolekile, Nyoro, Paddling song, Tanganyika, Tanzania, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record no. TP1840.
- Artist(s): Nawandala Social Club (Performer) | Composer: Nawandala Social Clu | 1950/09/02 | Central African, Clapping, Drum, exhortation, Folk music, Indigenous music, Laced conical drum, Nawandala Social Club, Soga, Song, Stick, Traditional music, Uganda, ILAM | Exhortation accompanied by a laced conical drum played with sticks. Further details refer ILAM field card number D5Y9
- Artist(s): Arab/Swahili boys (Performer) | Composer: Sheik Mohammed Bin Isa (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950/10/12 | Arab, Arabic, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kenya, Malindi, Praise song, Religiou praise song, Sheik Mohammed Bin Isa, Swahili, Thikri-Kauni praises of Allah, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: D7M-4
- Composer: Sheik Bunu bin Shahamadi (Performer) | 1950/10/12 | Arabic, chant, East African, Folk music, Kenya, Malindi, Religious music, Sheik Bunu Bin Shahamadi, ILAM | Folk music - unaccompnied praise chant with Arab / Swahili boys.Further details refer ILAM field card (D7M4)
- Artist(s): Giriyama men (Performer) | Composer: Kitsao wa Kombe (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952/05/23 | Dance song, East African, Folk music, Giriyama, Giriyama, Indigenous music, Kalifi, Kenya, Kitsao wa Kombe, Leg bell, Msego dance, Raft rattle, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: F3A 9
- Artist(s): Nyanja men (Performer) | Composer: Robison Banda (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | Banda,Robison, Carrying song, Chewa, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Malawi, Meshila song, Nyanja, Nyanja, Nyasaland, Southern African, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record number: TP1470
- Composer: Nontombi Dlamini and Her Party (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952-00-00 | Dlamini,Nontombi, Folk music, Indigenous music, South Africa, Southern African, Zulu, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number: TS0521.
- Composer: Lutheni Shandu (Performer) | 1955/01/28 | Flute, Folk music, Igekle, Indigenous music, Instrumental, KwaZulu-Natal, Lutheni Shandu, Mahlabatini, Natal, South Africa, Southern African, Zulu, Zululand, ILAM | Igekle flute tunes. Translated English title - "Men of Lenge." Further details refer ILAM field card (H1E9)
- Composer: Lungu, A. (Performer)Alfred Lungu (Performer) | 1949/08/13 | Dance song, Drum, Folk music, Gourd, Henga, Indigenous music, Lungu,Alfred, Northern Rhodesia, Singing Gourd, Southern African, Tumbuka, Zambia, ILAM | Song for Malipenga dance with drum and 6 singing gourds. Further details refer ILAM field card (C4F2).
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