South African Music Archive Project
Indigenous music
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- Composer: Hehe men (Performer)Composer not specified | 1900-01-00 | East African, Guitar, Hehe, Hehe, Indigenous music, Tanganyika, Tanzania, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record number TP1599
- Composer: Pierre Bakia (Performer)Pierre Bakia (Composer) | 1953/09/02 | Belgain Congo, Buta, Central African, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Indigenous music, Kundi, Pierre,Bakia, Republic of the Congo, Song, Topical song, Vertical harp, Vocals, Zande, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: F4W 10
- Artist(s): Modiseng (Leader) | Composer: Composer not specifiedTswana men (Performer) | 1900-01-00 | Bechuanaland, Botswana, Flute, Indigenous music, Instrumental, Modiseng, Pipe, Southern African, Tswana, Tswana, ILAM | Flute ensemble. Further details refer ILAM record number TP0160-ABC3204T
- Composer: Composer not specifiedFlute Ensemble (Performer) | 1948-00-00 | Dance music, Flute, Indigenous music, Instrumental, Lete, Pipe, Southern African, Tswana, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record number TP0128-ABC3204
- Artist(s): Modiseng (Leader) | Composer: Composer not specifiedTswana flute dancers (Performer) | 1948/09/26 | Bechuanaland, Botswana, Flute, Indigenous music, Instrumental, Lete, Modiseng, Southern African, Tswana, Tswane, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record number TP0547-ABC3204T
- Composer: Tswana men (Performer)Modiseng (Leader)Composer not specified | 1960-00-00 | Dance song, Flute ensemble, Indigenous music, Modiseng, Southern African, Tswana, Tswana, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR3640.
- Artist(s): Muntano Gomez o Feliciano | 1955/08/10 | Chibuto district, Gomez o Feliciano, Muntano, Guitar, Hlanganu, Indigenous music, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Southern African, Sul do Save Province, Tonga, Topical song, ILAM | Topical song with guitar. "If you have no child it is no good. Other women have children, they fill the village. There are many men here standing in the queues for going to Johannesburg. You, my wife, you do not want to eat porridge - you want rice. There is no rice here, because I am poor. Go to the rich where they can afford rice."So she went to a rich man to get her rice, but now she gets no clothes, no shoes, and at last, no food.Details from ILAM record number TP4274-H1P14
- Composer: K. Daniel (Performer)Composer not specified | 1951/06/06 | Chinyanja, Daniel,K., Folk song, Guitar, Heroic song, Indigenous music, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Heroic song. Further details refer ILAM field card E2C-19
- Artist(s): K. Daniel (Performer) | Composer: K. Daniel (Performer) | 1951/06/06 | Chimyanya, Daniel,K., Folk music, Guitar, Heroic song, Indigenous music, Kora-Kora, Malawi, Nyasaland, Southern African, Topical song, ILAM | Topical Heroic. Further details refer to ILAM filed card E2C19
- Composer: Manyoni Wanyamande (Performer)Composer not specified | 1949/10/11 | Folk music, Humorous, Indigenous music, Karanga, Manyoni Wanyamande, Mbira, Njari, Song, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Humorous song with Njari mbira. Translated English title - "Gombahari the jealous husband." Further details refer ILAM field card number: C6M-10
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