South African Music Archive Project
Indigenous music
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- Composer: Njiba Helene (Performer)Sana Club (Performer)Composer not specified | 1965-00-00 | Central African, Clapping, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Folk music, Indigenous music, Luba, Njiba Helene, Rattle, Republic of the Congo, Sana Club, Struck bottle, Tshiluba, Vocal, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR0963
- Artist(s): Gogo Men and Women (Performer) | Composer: Malaika Chedego (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950/06/17 | East African, Folk song, Gogo, Gogo, Horn, Indigenous music, Malaika Chedego, Ndwala bells, Nindo praise song, Stamping, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Whistles, ILAM | Praise song. Further details refer ILAM card number XYZ6173
- Composer: Bemba Men (Performer)A. K. Kaniki (Leader)Composer not specified | 1952-00-00 | Bemba, Bemba, Dance song, East African, Indigenous music, Kaniki,A.K., Nkana, Northern Rhodesia, Rattle, Zambia, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR3504.
- Artist(s): Bemba men (Performer) | Composer: Composer not specifiedKaniki, A.K. (Performer) | 1949/08/08 | Bemba, Bemba, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kaniki,A.K., Northern Rhodesia, Southern African, Unaccompanied, Wedding song, Zambia, ILAM | Translated English title - "Do not look at my scaly back. I am her father." Further information refer ILAM field card number: C4A-18
- Composer: Ngoleka, G.P. (Performer) Composer not specified | 1949-00-00 | Indigenous music, Malawi, Ngoleka,G.P., Nyasaland, Southern African, Topical song, Unaccompanied, Yao, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record number: TP1197
- Artist(s): Nyamwezi men and women (Performer) | Composer: Shabani Mutalise (Performer)Composer not specified | 1951-00-00 | East African, Folk song, Indigenous music, Mutalise,Shabani (Sgt.), Nyamwezi, Nyamwezi, Tabora, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Unaccompanied, Vocal, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: D4H 19
- Artist(s): Chinda Kamwana (Performer) | 1952/05/24 | Accordion, Chinda Kamwana, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kenya, Kiamuthambi, Kikuyu, Kikuyu territory, Struck iron, Topical song, ILAM | A topical song with accordian and struck iron. The accordian is used as a ground which creates a happy noise but has little, if any, melodic or harmonic relationship to the tonality or mode of the voice.Song to accompany a town dance in which men and women dance together in pairs, after the fashion of Europeans.Further details refer ILAM field card number: F3B 6
- Composer: Kadhari wa Marere (Performer) | 1952/05/25 | Accordion, Dance song, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kadhari wa Marere, Kenya, Kikuyu, Mombasa, Struck iron, ILAM | Mwomboro dance music. Further details refer ILAM fieldcard F3C-14.
- Composer: Dasane Ibanda (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952/06/23 | East African, Folk music, Guitar, Ibanda,Dasane, Indigenous music, Jinja, Love song, Soga, Uganda, ILAM | Translated English title - "My heart thinks of you." Further details refer ILAM field card number: F3P 13
- Artist(s): N. H. Makanya (Conductor) | Composer: The Bantu Glee Singers (Performer) | 1900-01-00 | Bantu Glee Singers, Choral music, Euro-African, Folk song, Indigenous music, KwaZulu-Natal, Makanya,Nimrod H., South Africa, Southern African, Unaccompanied, Zulu, Zululand, ILAM | Euro-African ballad. Further details refer ILAM shellac record number CR0663.
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