South African Music Archive Project
Indigenous music
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- Composer: Bekiyebei Arap Mosonik (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kenya, Kipsigis, Kipsigis, Lament, Lyre, Mosonik,Bekyibei Arap, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number TP2079.
- Composer: Longwani Nanjeko (Performer) | 1949/08/03 | Dance music, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kangombio, Longwani, Lozi, Mbira, Nanjeko, Nkana, Northern Rhodesia, Sipela, Southern African, Topical song, Zambia, ILAM | Topical song for Sipela dance with Kangombio mbira. Translated English title - "I have no work and that is why my wife has left me." Further details refer ILAM field card (C3V6)
- Composer: Composer not specifiedLongwani Nanjeko (Performer) | 1949/08/03 | Dance music, Dance song, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kangombio, Longwani, Lozi, Mbira, Nanjeko, Northern Rhodesia, Sipelu, Southern African, Topical song, Zambia, ILAM | Sipelu dance music. Further information refer ILAM field card number: C3V-6
- Artist(s): Nsenga men and women | Composer: Neliya Longwe | 1949/08/28 | Chief Nyamphandes Village, Folk music, Indigenous music, Longwe,Neliya, Northern Rhodesia, Nsenga, Nsenga, Pounding song, Southern African, Zambia, ILAM | Pounding song. Two girls pounding in a mortar. Further details refer to ILAM field card (C4U5a)
- Artist(s): Kunda men and women | Composer: Simon Ngoma (Leader)Kunda singers (Performer) | 1952-00-00 | Dance song, Drum, East African, Indigenous music, Kunda, Kunda, Luanshya, Mulaunda, Nsenga, Simon Ng'oma, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number CR1332Translated in English "You have no children"Translated in English "He has no children, he is a disgrace to the house"
- Composer: Maviye Machatini (Performer)Maviye Machatini (Composer)er) | 1949/06/03 | Chopi, Clapping, East African, Indigenous music, Lament, Maviye Machatini, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Southern African, ILAM | Translated English title - "I have been waiting." Further details refer ILAM field card number: CM-15
- Composer: Maviye Machatini (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952-00-00 | Chopi, Folk music, Indigenous music, Lament, Maviye Machatini, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Southern African, Zandamela, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number: CR3534.
- Composer: Wali Twamuna(Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | East African, Folk music, Ganda, Indigenous music, Lute, Ndingidi, Party song, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Wali Twamuna, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record no. TP1539.
- Composer: Sulume Abdallah (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | Clapping, Daressalaam, East African, Folk music, Ganda, Indigenous music, Lute, Ndingidi, Party song, Sulume Abdallah, Tanganyika, Tanzania, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record no. TP1540.
- Artist(s): Ganda women (Performer) | Composer: Ali H. Wachibi (Performer) | 1950/06/24 | bow, Clapping, East African, Folk music, Ganda, Ganda, Indigenous music, Kampala, Lute, Ndingidi, Party song, Uganda, Wachibi,Ali H., ILAM | Party song with four old Ganda women, with clapping and one-string lute (Ndingidi) with sisal string and bow. Further details refer ILAM field card (D3E1)
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