South African Music Archive Project
Indigenous music
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- Composer: Mangochana Muhlanga (Performer)Mangochana Muhlanga (Composer) | 1949/05/27 | Bila, bow, East African, Indigenous music, Lament, Mozambique, Muhlanga,Mangochana, Personal lament, Portuguese East Africa, Shitende, Southern African, Tonga, ILAM | Personal lament with shitende bow. Further details refer ILAM field card number: CF-5
- Composer: Performer not specifiedHugh Tracey (Composer) | 1933-00-00 | Bikila, Indigenous music, Rattle, South Rhodesia, Southern African, Tracey, Hugh, Vocal, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM reel number: A69.
- Composer: Composer not specifiedGwenzi, F. (Performer) | 1954-00-00 | Gwenzi,F., Indigenous music, Mbira, Ndau, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Topical song, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number TP0166-ABC3274
- Composer: Performer not specifiedHugh Tracey (Composer) | 1933-00-00 | Bikila, Indigenous music, Rattle, South Rhodesia, Southern African, Tracey, Hugh, Vocal, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM reel number: A69.
- Composer: Composer not specifiedZuze Antonio (Performer) | 1950-00-00 | Chikunda, Guitar, Indigenous music, Manyika, Song, Southern African, Zuze Antonio, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number TP0466-ABC12386
- Composer: Zuze Antonio (Performer)Composer not specified | 1954-00-00 | Chikunda, East African, Indigenous music, Zambezi, Zuze Antonio, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR2831.
- Composer: Xhosa sacred singers (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | Guitar, Indigenous music, Piano, Rattle, Southern African, Xhosa, Xhosa, Xhosa Sacred Singers, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR3213.
- Artist(s): Simon Mafiru Sitole | 1957/01/03 | Central African, Chipinga district, Indigenous music, Mount Selinda, Ndau, Rhodesia, Simon Mafiru Sitole, Southern Rhodesia, Topical song, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Topical song with mbira dza WaNdau and deze resonator. "See I am crying, mother-in-law.Poverty, elder brother, alack.See, Sophiatown is bad, PatisoniIn my distress I think of homeHappiness to you all at Marange."The singer sings about the conditions in which he finds himself at Sophiatown, near Johannesburg, where he works as a carpenter's assistant. His home, Marange is in the Chipinga District of Southern Rhodesia, about 400 miles north east of Johannesburg.Details from ILAM record number TP4272-2
- 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: Karanga Tribe (Performer)Composer not specified | 1929-00-00 | Bikita, Folk music, Indigenous music, Karanga, Southern Rhodesia, Xylophone, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM library number: A67.
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