South African Music Archive Project
Folk song
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- Artist(s): Nyanja Chewa men and women | Composer: Mesiyasi Chulu (Performer) | 1949/09/05 | Bangwe, Central African, Chewa, Chewa, Dance song, Dowa, Folk song, Indigenous music, Malawi, Mesiyasi Chulu, Nyanja, Nyanja, Nyasaland, ILAM | Dance song for Mbeleka dance for men and women. Translated English title - "My leg, my leg has slipped into the cassava pit". Further details refer ILAM field card no. C5C12.
- Artist(s): Gogo Men and Women (Performer) | Composer: Malaika Chedego (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950/06/17 | East African, Folk song, Gogo, Gogo, Horn, Indigenous music, Malaika Chedego, Ndwala bells, Nindo praise song, Stamping, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Whistles, ILAM | Praise song. Further details refer ILAM card number XYZ6173
- Artist(s): Nyamwezi men and women (Performer) | Composer: Shabani Mutalise (Performer)Composer not specified | 1951-00-00 | East African, Folk song, Indigenous music, Mutalise,Shabani (Sgt.), Nyamwezi, Nyamwezi, Tabora, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Unaccompanied, Vocal, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: D4H 19
- Artist(s): N. H. Makanya (Conductor) | Composer: The Bantu Glee Singers (Performer) | 1900-01-00 | Bantu Glee Singers, Choral music, Euro-African, Folk song, Indigenous music, KwaZulu-Natal, Makanya,Nimrod H., South Africa, Southern African, Unaccompanied, Zulu, Zululand, ILAM | Euro-African ballad. Further details refer ILAM shellac record number CR0663.
- Composer: Luunda boys (Performer) | 1949/07/12 | Belgian Congo, Central African, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Folk song, Kasenga, Luunda, Luunda, ILAM | Praise songSong from a story
- Artist(s): Gogo Men and Women (Performer) | Composer: Nyinamwaluko (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950/06/17 | East African, Folk song, Gogo, Gogo, Indigenous music, Invitation Song, Ndwala bells, Nyinamwaluku, Tanganyika, Tanzania, ILAM | Invitation Song. Further details refer ILAM foeld card number XYZ6175
- 1900-01-00 | Chopi, Folk song, Indigenous music, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Southern African, Timbila xylophone, Xylophone, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record number TP4090.
- Composer: Children of the Mindola African School (Performer) | 1952/01/13 | Folk song, Luunda, Mindola African School, Northern Rhodesia, Southern African, Story Song, Zambia, ILAM | Story song. Further details refer ILAM field card no. F1E7
- Artist(s): Friends of Kamwena Jean (Performer) | Composer: Kamwema Jean (Performer and Composer) | 1952/01/26 | Belgian Congo, Birinya Dance, Central African, Congo, Dance music, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Folk song, Guitar, Indigenous music, Kamwema Jean, Swahili, Town dance, ILAM | Town Dance. Further details refer ILAM field card number F1M-1
- Composer: Zande Elephant drivers-"Cornacs"(Performer) | 1952/08/03 | Andudu, Belgian Congo, Central African, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, elephant drivers (cornacs), Folk song, Indigenous music, Unaccompanied, Vangara, Work Song, Zande, Zande, ILAM | Work song for riding and driving tamed elephants (bringing elephants back). Further details refer to ILAM field card no. F4G5b.
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