South African Music Archive Project
Folk music
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- Composer: Mwajila Nsolo (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950/06/09 | East African, Folk music, Ilimba, Indigenous music, Love song, Mbira, Mwajila Nsolo, Nkonde, Nyakusa, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Tukuyu, ILAM | Translated English title - "To charm a women." Further details refer ILAM field card number: D2R 1
- Artist(s): Ngindo women (Performer) | Composer: Mawasu Binti Mponda (Performer)Fatuma Binti Meri (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950/06/25 | Clapping, Daressalaam, East African, Fatuma Binti Meri, Folk music, Indigenous music, Mawasu Binti Mponda, Ndonde, Ngindo, Pounding song, Tanganyika, Tanzania, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: D3F 12
- Artist(s): Kamba women (Performer) | Composer: Ndunge wa Kalele (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950/09/25 | Clapping, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kamba, Kamba, Kenya, Machakos, Ndunge wa Kalele, Topical song, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: D6V-13
- Composer: Kusu women (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952/08/03 | Belgian Congo, Central African, Congo, Dance song for ancestral spirits, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Drum, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kusu, Kusu, Manyema, Republic of the Congo, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: F4G 3
- Composer: Kusu women (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952/08/03 | Belgian Congo, Central African, Congo, Dance song for ancestral spirits, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Drum, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kusu, Kusu, Manyema, Republic of the Congo, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: F4G 3
- Artist(s): Zinza women (Performer) | Composer: Tigalyoma Tilwesobwa (Performer)Tegalyoma Tilwesobwa (Performer) | 1950/08/01 | Biharamulo, Drum, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Tigalyoma Tigweobwa, Wedding song, Zinza, Zinza, ILAM | Wedding song with one conical drum, single laced. Further details refer ILAM field card (D4R9).
- Artist(s): Zinza people (Performer) | Composer: Tigalyoma Tigweobwa (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | Drum, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Nyoro, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Tigalyoma Tigweobwa, Wedding song, Zinza, Zinza, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record number: TP1772
- Artist(s): Zinza women (Performer) | Composer: Tigalyoma Tilwesobwa (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | Biharamulo, Drum, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Nyoro, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Tigalyoma Tigweobwa, Wedding song, Zinza, Zinza, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record number: TP1776
- Artist(s): Chaga men (Performer) | Composer: Shaba Kasiani (Composer)Chaga men (Performer) | 1950/10/04 | Chaga, Chaga, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Shaba Kasiani, Shicheyere bells, Tanganyika, Tanzania, ILAM | Praise song for the Mangi (Chief). Further details refer to ILAM field card D7E
- 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 (C4F3).
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