South African Music Archive Project
Folk song
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- Composer: Snowy Radebe and Company (Performer)Composer not specified | 1946-00-00 | Accordion, Chords, Folk song, Guitar, Indigenous music, KwaZulu-Natal, Mixed voice Choir, Natal, Piano, Snowy Radebe, Snowy Radebe and Company, South Africa, Southern African, Strutting Dance Song, Zulu, Zululand, ILAM | Strutting Dance Song. Further details refer ILAM record TP3604
- Artist(s): Nyamwezi men and women | Composer: Mugabe Kagito (Performer) | 1950/07/18 | East African, Folk song, Mugabe Kagito, Nyamwezi, Nyamwezi, Tabora, Tanganyika, Tanzania, ILAM | Music sung for the chief
- Artist(s): Tribe men and women | Composer: Chief Buthelezi (Performer) | 1955/01/27 | Buthelezi, Chief Gatcha Buthelezi, dancing, Drinking song, Folk song, Indigenous music, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Southern African, Stamping feet, Zulu, Zulu, Zululand, ILAM | Drinking song with dancing and stamping of feet as accomplishment. Further details refer to ILAM field card no. H1D12.
- Composer: The Blue Hams Choir (Performer)Composer not specified | 1948-00-00 | Blue Hams Choir, Folk song, Indigenous music, KwaZulu-Natal, Natal, South Africa, Southern African, Unaccompanied, Vocal Mbube, Zulu, Zululand, ILAM | Folk song. Further details refer ILAM record TP3796
- Composer: Girls at Blantyre Mission (Performer) | 1949/09/15 | Blantyre, Blantyre Mission, Central African, Folk song, Indigenous music, Malawi, Ngoni, Nyasaland, Pounding song, Unaccompanied, Yao, Zulu, ILAM | Pounding songs sung by Blatyre Mission girls. Further details refer to ILAM field card no. C5M4b.
- Artist(s): F. Binti Meri with Ngindo women | Composer: Mawasu Binti Mponda (Performer) | 1950/06/25 | Daressalaam, Divination song, East African, Fatuma Binti Meri, Folk song, Indigenous music, Mawasu Binti Mponda, Ndonde, Ngindo, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Two Ngindo divination songs. Further details refer to ILAM field card no. D3F10.
- Artist(s): Nkoya men and women | Composer: Filimoni Mandala (Performer) | 1949/08/15 | Broken Hill Mine, Dance song, Drum, Folk song, Indigenous music, Mandala,Filimoni, Nkoya, Nkoya, Northern Rhodesia, Southern African, Zambia, ILAM | Translation: My child is disobedient. Dance song for Mampengele dance for men and women. Further details refer to ILAM field card no. C4H5.
- Artist(s): N. H. Makanya (Conductor) | Composer: The Bantu Glee Singers (Performer) | 1960-00-00 | Bantu Glee Singers, Folk song, Humorous, Indigenous music, KwaZulu-Natal, Makanya,Nimrod H., Piano, Song, South Africa, Southern African, Zulu, Zululand, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record number CR0658.
- Artist(s): Chaga men | Composer: Lengare Sakarani (Performer) | 1950/10/04 | Chaga, Chaga, East African, Folk song, Marangu, Sakarani,Lengare, Shicheyere leg bells, Tanganyika, Tanzania, ILAM | Chaga folk music
- Artist(s): Nyamwezi men and women (Performer) | Composer: Idi Selemani (Performer) | 1950/06/28 | Clapping, Daressalaam, East African, Folk song, goblet Drum, Humorous, Idi Selemani, Indigenous music, Nyamwezi, Nyamwezi, Song, Tanganyika, Tanzania, ILAM | Humorous song with clapping and goblet drum, closed pegged footed accompaniment. Further details refer to ILAM field card no. D3I7.
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