South African Music Archive Project
Indigenous music
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- Composer: Chiwambo Men (Performer)No. 2 Batalhao Indigena de Cacadores (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952-00-00 | Baili Dance song, Batalhao Indigena de Cacadores No 2, Chiwambo, Chiwambo, Dance song, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Southern African, Tete, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number: CR3607.
- Composer: Falesi Phiri (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | Chewa, Dance song, Drum, Indigenous music, Malawi, Nyanja, Nyasaland, Phiri,Falesi, Southern African, Whistle, ILAM | Kasodo dance song. Further details refer ILAM shellac record number TP2766.
- Composer: Limbane, J. (Performer)Malembesa, D. (Performer) | 1950/05/12 | Blantyre, Dance song, Dikinsoni Malembesa, Folk music, Hunting song, Indigenous music, Jasoni Limbane, Malawi, Nyanja, Nyasaland, Southern African, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Dance song for after hunting, unaccompanied. Further details refer ILAM field card (DN8)
- Composer: Jasoni Limbane (Performer)Dikinsoni Malembesa (Performer)Composer not specified | 1905/05/05 | Dikinsoni Malembesa, Indigenous music, Jasoni Limbane, Malawi, Nyanja, Nyasaland, Southern African, Unaccompanied, Vocal, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR1252
- Composer: Louis Karafulu (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952/07/04 | Central African, East African, Folk music, Inanga zithe, Indigenous music, Kivu, Louis Karafulu, Praise song, Ruanda, Rundi, Urundi, ILAM | Translated English title - "I must feed my cattle." Further details refer ILAM field card number: F3T 2
- Composer: Hugh Tracey (Narrator)Constance Magogo (Performer) | 1900-01-00 | Constance Magogo Uzulu ka-Dinuzulu, Folk music, Indigenous music, Poetic song, South Africa, Southern African, Tracey, Hugh, Ugubhu Bow, Zulu, Zululand, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM reel number: BC59.
- Composer: Lu Myalo and his concertina (Performer)Composer not specified | 1905/05/04 | Cape, Ceskei, concertina, Eastern Cape, Indigenous music, Lu Myalo, South Africa, Southern African, Transkei, Unaccompanied, Vocal, Xhosa, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR1220
- Composer: F. Gwenzi (Performer)Composer not specified | 1954-00-00 | Gwenzi,F., Indigenous music, Mbira, Ndau, Rattle, Southern African, Vocal, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR3464.
- Composer: Sotho girls from the St Mary's Institution of Roma Mission (Performer)Composer not specified | 1951/05/22 | Basutoland, Clapping, Dance song, Folk music, Indigenous music, Lesotho, Roma, Sotho, Sotho, South Sotho, Southern African, St. Mary's Institution of Roma Mission, ILAM | Translated English title - "I have two twins and one tsotsi." Further details refer ILAM field card number: E1B 28
- Composer: Mangochana Muhlanga (Performer)Mangochana Muhlanga (Composer) | 1949/05/27 | Bila, bow, East African, Indigenous music, Lament, Mozambique, Muhlanga,Mangochana, Portuguese East Africa, Shitende, Southern African, Tonga, ILAM | Lament with Shitende bow. Further details refer ILAM field card number: CF-5
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