South African Music Archive Project
Folk song
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- Artist(s): Swahili Men (Performer) | Composer: Omari Saudi (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950/07/04 | Box Rattle, Dance song, East African, Folk song, Friction sticks, Indigenous music, Marimba, Nguja, Omari Saudi, Swahili, Swahili, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Xylophone, ILAM | Mkwaju dance song. Further details refer ILAM field card D3O-6
- Artist(s): Swahili Men (Performer) | Composer: Omari Saidi (Performer) | 1950/07/04 | Dance song, East African, Folk song, Indigenous music, Nguja, Omari Saidi, Swahili, Swahili, Tanganyika, Tanzania, ILAM | Mkwaju Dance Song. Further details refer ILAM card no D3O6
- Composer: Group of Bemba women (Performer) | 1949/07/16 | Bemba, Bemba, Dance music, Drum, Folk song, Indigenous music, Northern Rhodesia, Southern African, Zambia, ILAM | Dance song with drumsFurther details refer ILAM field card (C3D5)
- Composer: Girls at Blantyre Mission (Performer) | 1949/09/15 | Blantyre, Blantyre Mission, Central African, Folk song, Indigenous music, Malawi, Ngoni, Nyasaland, Pounding song, Unaccompanied, Zulu, ILAM | Two pounding songs sung by Blatyre Mission girls. Further details refer to ILAM field card no. C5M3a.
- Composer: Boniface Kasongo (Performer) | 1949/07/12 | Belgian Congo, Boniface Kasongo, Central African, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Folk song, Kasenga, Luunda, ILAM | Rowing song
- Composer: Kabale (Performer) | 1948/05/07 | Folk song, Indigenous music, Kabale, Mapanza, Northern Rhodesia, Southern African, Story Song, Tonga, Zambia, ILAM | Folk music story song.Further details refer ILAM field card (AX25)
- Artist(s): Lenje men and women | Composer: Faifi Alachia (Performer) | 1949/08/15 | Broken Hill Mine, Dance song, Drum, Faifi Alachia, Folk song, Indigenous music, Lenje, Lenje, Northern Rhodesia, Rattle, Southern African, Zambia, ILAM | Translation: We agree with your sound idea. Dance song for Kasela dance for men and women. Accompanied by Board Zither and Bangwe. Further details refer to ILAM field card no. C4H2.
- Artist(s): Lower Gwelo Choir (Performer) | Composer: Fraser Mpofu (Leader) | 1950/05/05 | Dance song, Folk song, Fraser Mpofu, Guitar, Indigenous music, Lower Gwelo Choir, Ndebele, Salisbury, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, Zulu, ILAM | Translation: Lobengula is dead. Marabi Town dance song with guitar accompaniment. Further details refer to ILAM card no. DG2
- Artist(s): Hehe Women (Performer) | Composer: Alima Binti Femusi (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950/06/14 | Alima Binti Femusi, Clapping, Dance song, East African, Folk song, Hehe, Hehe, Indigenous music, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Wedding song, ILAM | Folk song. Further details refer ILAM field card number XYZ6170
- Composer: The Fouriesburg Zulu Choir (Performer) | 1900-01-00 | Choral music, Dance song, Folk song, Fouriesburg Zulu Choir, Indigenous music, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Southern African, Zulu, Zululand, ILAM | Ndlamu dance song. Further details refer ILAM shellac record number TP3988.
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