South African Music Archive Project
Indigenous music
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- Composer: Sechuana Sacred Singers (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952-00-00 | Indigenous music, Piano, Sechuana, Sechuana Sacred Singers, Southern African, Vocal, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR3289.
- Composer: Composer not specifiedFrans Sema (Performer)Sema, F. (Performer) | 1950-00-00 | Autoharp, Indigenous music, North Sotho, Pedi, Sema,Frans, Sotho, South Africa, Southern African, Topical song, Transvaal, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record number TP0513-ABC13149
- Composer: Frans Sema (Performer)Composer not specified | 1954-00-00 | Autoharp, Frans Sema, Indigenous music, Pedi, South Africa, Southern African, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number: CR2864.
- Artist(s): Muntano Gomez o Feliciano | 1955/08/10 | Chibuto district, East African, Gomez o Feliciano, Muntano, Guitar, Indigenous music, Mozambique, Ndau, Portuguese East Africa, Sul do Save Province, Topical song, ILAM | Topical song with guitar. Feliciano's pronunciation of Ndau words, they say, is like a child's speech. "Matsaire, you have finished all the people." Matsaire was killed in a certain village, and his ghost came back demanding recompense, under pain of death to all the village. Details from ILAM field card (H1P-10, 11 - 25).
- Composer: Snowy Radebe and co. (Performer)Composer not specified | 1946-00-00 | Chuana, Folk music, Indigenous music, Snowy Radebe, Snowy Radebe and Company, Southern African, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number: TP4085
- 1900-01-00 | Clapping, Eastern Cape, Indigenous music, Khalana village, South Africa, Southern African, Vocal, Xhosa, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM CD number: BC78.
- Artist(s): Sukuma men (Performer) | Composer: Mbilo Bundi (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952-00-00 | Bucheyeke dance, Dance song, East African, Folk song, Indigenous music, Mbilo Bundi, Nyamwezi, Sukuma, Sukuma, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Unaccompanied, Vocal, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recording) number: CR0036
- Composer: Nyembane dancers (Performer) | 1955/03/06 | Dance song, Drum, Folk music, Indigenous music, Mozambique, Nyembane, Nyembane, Portuguese East Africa, South Africa, Southern African, Tonga, Transvaal, Zore, ILAM | Zore dance song accompanied by various types of drums. Refer ILAM field card H1H11
- Composer: Mauyika Highlanders | 1951/06/21 | Clapping, Folk song, Indigenous music, Manyika, Mauyika Highlanders, Penhalonga, Rattle, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, St Augustine's Mission, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Translation: Fear of the knife. Folk song with rattle accompaniment. Further details refer to ILAM card no. E2R4
- Composer: Manyika Highlanders (Performer)Composer not specified | 1945-00-00 | Clapping, Folk music, Indigenous music, Manyika, Manyika Highlanders, Rattle, Shona, Song for Chief's installation, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Ululating, Vocal, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record (Commercial Recordings) number: CR0124
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