South African Music Archive Project
Indigenous music
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- Composer: The Guitar Twins (Performer)Phineas Maphumulo (Composer) | 1951-00-00 | Folk music, Guitar, Guitar Twins, Indigenous music, Phineas Maphumulo, South Africa, Southern African, Zulu, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number: CR3448.
- Composer: Composer not specifiedGuitar Twins (Performer)Phineas Maphumulo (Performer) | 1948-00-00 | Guitar, Guitar Twins, Indigenous music, KwaZulu-Natal, Natal, Phineas Maphumolo, South Africa, Southern African, Topical song, Zulu, Zululand, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number TP0060-ABC482
- Artist(s): Hlupe Chikuma(Leader) | Composer: Chopi People (Performer)Composer not specified | 1905/05/05 | banjo, Chopi, Chopi, Hlupe Chikuma, Indigenous music, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Southern African, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR1269
- Artist(s): Fomeni Faduko (Leader) | Composer: Chopi people (Performer)Hlupe Chikuma (Composer) | 1949/06/04 | Chopi, Chopi, Dance song, East African, Faduko,Fomeni, Hlupe Chikuma, Indigenous music, Marimba, Mdano, Mozambique, Orchestra, Orchestral music, Portuguese East Africa, Southern African, Timbila, Xylophone, ILAM | Orchestral dance music with Timbila xylophones - Mdano movement. Translated English title - "We, we are the boys." Further details refer ILAM field card number: CN-2
- Composer: The King Cole Brothers (Performer)The K C Brothers (Performer)Composer not specified | 1951/06/14 | Exhortation song song, Guitar, Indigenous music, King Cole Brothers, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Zezuru, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: E2K 20
- Artist(s): Wm. Mseleku (Conductor) | Composer: Amanzimtoti Zulu Choir (Performer) | 1960-00-00 | Amanzimtoti Zulu Choir, Ballad, Choral music, Folk song, Indigenous music, KwaZulu-Natal, Mseleku,W.M., Piano, South Africa, Southern African, Zulu, Zululand, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record number CR0688.
- Artist(s): Swahili men (Performer) | Composer: Composer not specifiedSikwaza Mudalaswale (Performer) | 1949/08/14 | Clapping, Dance song, Indigenous music, Musondo, Ndola, Ngwana, Northern Rhodesia, Sikwaza Mudalaswale, Southern African, Swahili, Swahili, Zambia, ILAM | Musondo dance song with clapping. Further details refer ILAM card no C4G18
- Artist(s): Swahili-Ngwana women (Performer) | Composer: Sikwaza Mudalaswale (Performer)Composer not specified | 1949/08/14 | Circumcision dance, Clapping, Dance song, Indigenous music, Musondo, Ngwana, Ngwana, Northern Rhodesia, Sikwaza Mudalaswale, Southern African, Swahili, Swahili, Zambia, ILAM | Musondo dance music. Further details refer ILAM field card number: C4G-18
- Artist(s): Baghaphile Makhoba (Performer) | Composer: Baghaphile Makhoba | 1955/01/27 | Braced bow, Chordophone, Folk music, Indigenous music, Makhoba,Bagaphile, Makhweyana bow, self-delectative, South Africa, Southern African, Traditional music, Zulu, ILAM | Self-delectative song accompanied by the braced, Makhweyana bow. The translated title is "I wander over hills". Further details refer ILAM field card number H1D14
- Composer: Bagaphile Makhoba (Performer) | 1955/01/27 | bow, Indigenous music, KwaZulu-Natal, Mahlabatini, Makhoba,Bagaphile, Makhweyana, Natal, Self-delectative song, South Africa, Southern African, Zulu, Zululand, ILAM | Self-delectative song with Makhweyana braced musical bow. Translated English title - "I wander over the hills." Further details refer ILAM field card (H1D14)
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