South African Music Archive Project
Indigenous music
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- Composer: M.A.Bwagajuga (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952-00-00 | Bwagajuga,Mohamedi A., Daressalaam, East African, Humorous, Indigenous music, Love song, Nguja, Swahili, Tanzania, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number CR1394Translated in English "Excuse me, mother Kitwana"
- Composer: Sephota Mokoena (Performer)Composer not specified | 1940-00-00 | Basutoland, concertina, Indigenous music, Lesotho, Mokoena,Sephota, Sotho, South Sotho, Southern African, Vocal, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recording) number: CR0462
- Artist(s): Stewart Mpofu (Leader) | Composer: Lower Gwelo Choir (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950/05/06 | Choral music, Christian church hymn, Hymn, Indigenous music, Lower Gwelo Choir, Lower Gwelo Mission, Ndebele, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Stewart Mpofu, Unaccompanied, Zimbabwe, Zulu, ILAM | Hymn No. 260. Further details refer ILAM fieldcard DH4.
- Composer: Premier Groument Force (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952-00-00 | Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African, Elisabethville, Indigenous music, Musique Militaire du Premier Groupment Force Publique, Ngala, Publique, Rattle, Vocal, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR3572.
- Composer: Omari Saidi (Performer) | 1950/07/04 | Dance music, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Marimba, Nguja, Omari Saidi, Raha Leo, Rattle, Stick, Swahili, Xylophone, Zanzibar, ILAM | Folk music - Dance song with Swahili men, Marimba, box rattle and friction sticksFurther details refer ILAM field card (D3O10)
- Artist(s): Swahili men (Performer) | Composer: Omari Saidi (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950/07/04 | Box Rattle, Dance song, East African, Folk music, Friction stick, Indigenous music, Marimba, Mkwaju dance, Nguja, Omari Saidi, Swahili, Swahili, Xylophone, Zanziba, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record number: TP1644
- Artist(s): Swahili men (Performer) | Composer: Omari Saidi (Performer) | 1950/07/04 | Box Rattle, Dance song, East African, Folk music, Friction stick, Indigenous music, Marimba, Mkwaju, Nguja, Omari Saidi, Rattle, Stick, Swahili, Swahili, Xylophone, Zanziba, ILAM | Mkwaju dance song for men with Marimba xylophone, box rattle and friction sticks. Further details refer ILAM field card (D3O10)
- Artist(s): Shangaan women (Performer) | Composer: Shangaan women | 1955/10/10 | Ebony wood, Folk music, Indigenous music, mortar, Mozambique, pestle, Portuguese East Africa, Shangaan, Shangaan, Southern African, Tonga, Traditional music, ILAM | Song accompanied by pounding sounds from a mortar and pestle made of ebony wood. Further details refer ILAM field card number H1Q3-4
- Artist(s): Shangaan women (Performer) | Composer: Shangaan women | 1955/10/10 | Ebony wood, Folk music, Indigenous music, mortar, Mozambique, pestle, Portuguese East Africa, Shangaan, Shangaan, Southern African, Tonga, Traditional music, ILAM | Song accompanied by pounding sounds from a mortar and pestle made of ebony wood. Further details refer ILAM field card number H1Q3-4
- Artist(s): Shangaan women (Performer) | Composer: Shangaan women | 1955/10/10 | Ebony wood, Folk music, Indigenous music, mortar, Mozambique, pestle, Portuguese East Africa, Shangaan, Shangaan, Southern African, Tonga, Traditional music, ILAM | Song accompanied by pounding sounds from a mortar and pestle made of ebony wood. Further details refer ILAM field card number H1Q3-4
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