South African Music Archive Project
Indigenous music
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- Composer: Chopi people (Performer)Composer not specified | 1900-01-00 | Chopi, Chopi, Dance song, East African, Indigenous music, Marimba, Mozambique, Orchestra, orchestral dance, Portuguese East Africa, Southern African, Timbila, Xylophone, ILAM | Orchestral dance song with Timbila xylophones. Further details refer ILAM shellac record number: TP1069-XYZT4354
- Artist(s): Lenje men and women | Composer: Tumsti Mungaila (Performer, Leader) | 1949/08/15 | Broken Hill Mine, Conical Drum, Dance song, Folk music, Indigenous music, Lenje, Lenje, Northern Rhodesia, rattles, Southern African, Tumsti Mungaila, Zambia, ILAM | Kasela dance song. Further details refer to ILAM field card (C4H1)
- Artist(s): Lenje men and women | Composer: Tomoti Mungaila (Performer) | 1949/08/15 | Broken Hill Mine, Dance song, Drum, Folk song, Indigenous music, Lenje, Lenje, Northern Rhodesia, Rattle, Southern African, Tomoti Mungaila, Zambia, ILAM | Translation: Noya, you have gone and left the dance. Dance song for Kasela dance for Lenje men and women. Further details refer to ILAM field card no. C4H1
- Artist(s): Lenje men and women (Performer) | Composer: Timoti Mungaila (Performer)Composer not specified | 1949/08/15 | Dance song, Drum, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kasela, Lenje, Lenje, Nkoya, Northern Rhodesia, Rattle, Southern African, Timoti Mungaila, Zambia, ILAM | Kasela dance music. Translated English title - "Moya you have gone and left the dance." Further details refer ILAM field card number: C4H-1
- Composer: John Kapenda (Performer)Kapenda, J. (Performer) | 1949/08/01 | Folk music, Indigenous music, Kapenda,John, Kitwe, Love song, Luvale, Northern Rhodesia, Southern African, Zambia, ILAM | Folk music - Love song for Mwaso dance with Luvale men and women. Further details refer ILAM field card (C3T9).
- Composer: Batwa singers of Chief Kamuzini (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952/07/20 | Batwa, Central African, Chief Kamuzini, Clapping, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Ruanda, Rugerero, Rwanda, Urundi, Wedding song, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: F3Y 3
- Composer: Composer not specifiedKaninda Mandevu (Performer) | 1900-01-00 | Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Indigenous music, Kaninda Mandevu, Kasai, Luba, Mbira, Republic of the Congo, Song, Southern African, Stick, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record number TP0496-ABC12625
- Composer: The Sea Waves Sesotho Singers (Performer)Composer not specified | 1946-00-00 | Basutoland, Choral music, Indigenous music, Lesotho, Sea Waves Choir, Sesotho, Sotho, Southern African, ILAM | Wedding song. Further details refer ILAM shellac record number TP3997.
- Artist(s): Haya men (Performer) | Composer: Atanasi Gamanya (Performer) | 1950/07/23 | Bukoba, Dance song, Drum, East African, Folk music, Gamanya,Atanasi, Haya, Haya, Indigenous music, Ngoma yawakazi, Nyoro, Tanganyika, Tanzania, ILAM | Ngoma dance dance song with drum. Further details refer ILAM field card number D4H17
- Artist(s): Daressalaam Jazz Band | Composer: Composer not specifiedShabani Abdullah Mwenkewa (Performer) | 1951/01/01 | Alexander Hall, Bass Drum, Clarinet, Dar-es-Salaam Jazz Band, Daressalaam, East African, Guitar, Indigenous music, Kazoos, Mwankewa,Shabani Abdallah, Nguja, rattles, Swahili, Swahili rumba, Tanganyika, Tanzania, trumpet, Violin, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM filed card number XYZ6016Translated in English"I have a sweet young girl whom I will never leave"
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