South African Music Archive Project
Indigenous music
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- Composer: Tonga boys (Performer) | 1949/09/16 | Blantyre, Folk music, Indigenous music, Malawi, Nyasaland, Southern African, Story Song, Tonga, Tonga, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Story song, unaccompanied. Further details refer ILAM field card (C5N11)
- Artist(s): Henry Timothy (Performer) | Composer: Paul Mwachupa (Composer/Performer) | 1952/05/25 | East African, Guitar, Henry Timothy, Indigenous music, Kenya, Mombasa, Paul Mwachupa, Swahili, ILAM | Topical song. Further details refer ILAM fieldcard F3C-16.
- Composer: Buja soldiers (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952/08/02 | Ajuba dance, Buja, Buja, Bumba, Central African, Clapping, Congo, Dance song, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Drum, Folk music, Indigenous music, Ngala, Rattle, Republic of the Congo, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: F4F 8
- Composer: Lunda Singers (Performer)J. Muntanga (Leader)Composer not specified | 1954-00-00 | Chibuluma, East African, Indigenous music, Lunda, Lunda, Muntanga,Jim, Northern Rhodesia, Topical song, Zambia, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number: CE3497.
- Composer: Muntanga, J. (Performer)Jim Muntanga (Performer) | 1949/08/07 | Drinking song, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kitwe, Lunda, Muntanga,Jim, Ndembo, Northern Rhodesia, Southern African, Unaccompanied, Zambia, ILAM | Unaccompanied dance song with Lunda men and women. Further details refer ILAM field card (C3Z7).
- Artist(s): Lunda men and women (Performer) | Composer: Composer not specifiedMuntanga, J. (Performer)Jim Muntanga (Performer) | 1949/08/07 | Dance song, Folk music, Indigenous music, Inkanga, Lunda, Lunda, Muntanga,Jim, Ndembo, Northern Rhodesia, Southern African, Unaccompanied, Zambia, ILAM | Inkanga dance music. Further information refer ILAM field card number: C3Z-7
- Artist(s): Kasomangila Husen Ishike (Leader) | Composer: Wachezaji wa Manyanga (Performer)Kasomangila Husen Ishike (Composer) | 1950-00-00 | bell, Drum, East African, goblet Drum, Indigenous music, Kasomangila Husen Ishike, Manyanga dance, Mwanza, Nyamwezi, Sukuma, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Wachezaji wa Manyanga, ILAM | Translated English title - "Why are you so angry." Further details refer ILAM shellac record number: TP1762
- Artist(s): Sukuma men (Performer) | Composer: Wachezaji wa Manyanga (Performer)Kasomangila Husen Ishike (Composer) | 1950-00-00 | bell, Dance song, Drum, East African, goblet Drum, Indigenous music, Kasomangila Husen Ishike, Manyanga dance, Mwanza, Nyamwezi, Sukuma, Sukuma, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Wachezaji wa Manyanga, ILAM | Translated English title - "Why are you so angry." Further details refer ILAM shellac record number: TP1763
- Composer: Lu Myalo and his concertina (Performer)Composer not specified | 1905/05/04 | Cape, Ceskei, concertina, Eastern Cape, Indigenous music, Lu Myalo, South Africa, Southern African, Transkei, Unaccompanied, Vocal, Xhosa, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR1221
- Composer: Nomatheko Zungu (Performer) | 1955/01/28 | bow, Indigenous music, Love song, Makhweyana, South Africa, Southern African, Zulu, Zululand, Zungu,Nomatheko, ILAM | Love song accompanied by the Makhwenyana braced musical bow. Refer ILAM field card H1E3
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