South African Music Archive Project
Indigenous music
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- Composer: Soldiers of Batalhao Indigena (Performer) | 1949-00-00 | Batalhao Indigena, East African, Indigenous music, Morality song, Mozambique, Ngoni, Portuguese East Africa, Southern African, Unaccompanied, Zulu, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record number: TP1234
- Composer: George Sibanda (Performer) | 1949/02/09 | Guitar, Indigenous music, Ndebele, Sibanda, George, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Topical song. Further details refer ILAM record number TP0129
- Composer: Bisha ya Lokele (Performer)Kisangani (Performer)Composer not specified | 1905/05/18 | Bisha ya Lokele, Central African, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Drum, Indigenous music, Kele, Kisangani, Topical song, Vocal, ILAM | Calypso dance song performed on various instruments. The voices sing repetitive chorus lines rather than long melody. Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR1087
- Composer: The Basuto Choir (Performer)Composer not specified | 1930-00-00 | Basuto Choir, Basutoland, Indigenous music, Lesotho, Sotho, South Africa, South Sotho, Southern African, Unaccompanied, Vocal, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR0803
- Artist(s): The Basuto Choir (Performer) | Composer: The Basuto Choir | 1900-01-00 | Basotho, Call and response, Chant like accompaniment, Choir with drone, Indigenous music, Part singing, Popular music, Solo, Song, Sotho, South Africa, South African, Spoken verse, Traditional music, ILAM | Unaccompanied song, with a solo voice accompanied by choir with repeated drone or chant-like melody.
- Artist(s): Sephoto Mokoena (Performer) | Composer: Sephoto Mokoena | 1965-00-00 | concertina, Folk music, Indigenous music, Lesotho, Mokoena,Sephota, Repetition, Song, Sotho, South Africa, Southern African, Traditional music, ILAM | Song performed by a man who is accompanied by the concertina
- 1950-00-00 | Circumcision Song, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Ndonde, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record number: TP1174
- Artist(s): Ngindo women (Performer) | Composer: Mawasu Binti Mponda (Performer)Fatuma Binti Meri (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950/06/25 | Circumcision Song, Daressalaam, East African, Fatuma Binti Meri, Folk music, Indigenous music, Mawasu Binti Mponda, Ndonde, Ngindo, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: D3F 11
- Artist(s): Ngindo women (Performer) | Composer: Mawasu Binti Mponda (Performer)Fatuma Binti Meri (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950/06/25 | Circumcision Song, Daressalaam, East African, Fatuma Binti Meri, Folk music, Indigenous music, Mawasu Binti Mponda, Ndonde, Ngindo, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: D3F 11
- Artist(s): Fatuma Binti Meri (Performer) | Composer: Mawasu Binti Mponda(Performer) | 1950/06/25 | Daressalaam, East African, Fatuma Binti Meri, Folk music, Indigenous music, Mawasu Binti Mponda, Ndonde, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Circumsicion song. Further details refer ILAM field card (D3F11)
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