South African Music Archive Project
Indigenous music
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- Composer: Rutahindurwa Lukuta (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950/08/05 | Bukoba, East African, Folk music, Haya, Indigenous music, Nanga trough zithe, Nyoro, Praise song, Rutahindurwa Lukuka, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Trough zither, Vocal, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: D4W 14
- Composer: Hashimu Bin Kamala (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | Cylindrical Drum, East African, Folk music, Hashima Bin Kilamata, Hiyari ya moyo Dance Song, Indigenous music, Lake Victoria, Nyamwezi, Tanganyika, Tanzania, ILAM | Hiyari ya moyo Dance Song for men and women. Further details refer ILAM shellac record TP1712
- Composer: Rhodesian Glee Singers (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952-00-00 | East African, Guitar, Indigenous music, Rattle, Rhodesian Glee Singers, Shona, Vocal, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR3418.
- Artist(s): John Khoza (Leader)Women's Choir (Performer) | Composer: John KhozaWomen's Choir | 1960-00-00 | Autoharp, Choir, Chordophone, Folk music, Indigenous music, John Khosa, Man calling and women respond, Repetition, Shangaan, Shangaan harp, South Africa, Southern African, String, Traditional music, women, ILAM | Traditional song performed by a man and women. They are accompanied by a string instrument identified as a Shangaan harp. The harp is possibly an Autoharp
- Composer: St.Cecilia's Choir (Performer)E.G Mabothoana (Composer) | 1952-00-00 | Basutoland, Indigenous music, Lesotho, Mabothoana,E.G., Roma, Roma Mission, South Sotho, Southern African, St. Cecilia's Choir, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR1994.
- Composer: E.G Mabothoana (Composer)St.Cecilia's Choir Roma Mission (Performer) | 1952-00-00 | Basutoland, Catholic hymn, Indigenous music, Lesotho, Mabothoana,E.G., Roma, Roma Mission, South Sotho, Southern African, St.Cecilia's Choir, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR1994.
- Composer: Singers of Copper Cross (Performer)Composer not specified | 1900-01-00 | Belgian Congo, Central African, Chanteurs a la Croix de Cuivre, Choral music, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Drum, Elizabethville, Hymn, Indigenous music, Singers of the Copper Cross, ILAM | Christian hymn. Further details refer ILAM shellac record number TP4084.
- Artist(s): Swazi (Zingili) Dancers (Performer) | Composer: Eliot S Dhlamini (Leader) | 1955/01/09 | Dance song, Drum, Eliot S. Dhlamini, Folk song, Indigenous music, South Africa, Southern African, Stick, Swazi, Swazi, Swazi (Zingili) Dancers, Transvaal, Wooden clappers, ILAM | Indhlamu dance song done for the paramount chief, Sobuzo in Swaziland. Further details refer to ILAM field card no. H1B3.
- Composer: Lot Dube and Co (Performer)Composer not specified | 1955-00-00 | Drum, East African, Guitar, Indigenous music, Lot Dube, Rattle, Sindebele, Southern African, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR2906.
- Artist(s): Men and women of the Shembe Church (Performer) | Composer: Men and women of the Shembe Church | 1955/01/24 | dance, Folk music, Hymn, Indigenous music, Shembe, Shembe Church Choir, South Africa, Southern African, Traditional music, Unaccompanied, Zulu, ILAM | Hymn for dancing. The translated title is "The cock that crows at dawn". Further details refer ILAM field card number H1C1
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