South African Music Archive Project
Indigenous music
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- Artist(s): Nine Njari mbira players (Performer) | Composer: Gwawa Shumba (Performer)Composer not specified | 1949/10/15 | Drum, Indigenous music, Karanga, Mazungu-Mashawi, Mbira, Njari, Njari, Shumba,Gwawa, Song, soul, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Song for the Mazungu-Mashawi soul with 10 Njari mbiras and a drum. Further details refer ILAM field card number: C6Q-5
- Artist(s): Gwawa Shumba (Leader) | Composer: Karanga men (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952-00-00 | Drum, Folk song, Indigenous music, Karanga, Karanga, Mashawi song for souls, Mbira, Njari mbira, Shona, Shumba,Gwawa, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Vocal, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recording) number: CR0043
- Artist(s): Wanga men and women (Performer) | Composer: Jeremiah Mukanda (Performer)Jeremiah Mukanda (Composer)er) | 1950/09/11 | East African, Fighting song, Historic feud song, Indigenous music, Kenya, Mukanda,Jeremiah, Nyanza, Tsindeche leg bells, Wanga, Wanga, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: D6H-6
- Artist(s): Hanga Men and Women | Composer: Jeremiah Mukanda (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952-00-00 | bells, East African, Hanga, Hanga, Historic song, Horn, Indigenous music, Kenya, Litungu lyre, Lureko, Luya, Mukanda,Jeremiah, Wanga, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR2442.
- Composer: Chabarwa Musunda Moyo (Performer)Composer not specified | 1948-00-00 | Folk music, Indigenous music, Moyo,Chabarwa Musunda, Shona, Southern African, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number: CR3391.
- 1950/06/05 | Guitar, Indigenous music, Ndebele, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number DH1
- Artist(s): Enoch Mkize (Singer)Singing Birds (Performer) | Composer: Enoch MkizeSinging Birds | 1900-01-00 | Enoch Mkize, Indigenous music, Isicathamiya, Mbube style, Men singing, Part singing, Popular music, Singing Birds, Song, South Africa, South African, Traditional music, Zulu, ILAM | Mbube style song performed by men.
- Composer: St Mary's Institution Roma Mission Choir (Performer) | 1951/05/22 | Basutoland, Choral music, Folk music, Indigenous music, Lesotho, Sotho, South Sotho, Southern African, St. Mary's Institution Roma Mission Choir, Wedding song, ILAM | Wedding song. Translated English title - "Where you go I will follow". Further details refer ILAM field card (E1B27)
- Composer: Sotho girls from the St Mary's Institution of Roma Mission (Performer)Composer not specified | 1951/05/22 | Basutoland, Folk music, Indigenous music, Lesotho, Roma, Sotho, Sotho, South Sotho, Southern African, St. Mary's Institution of Roma Mission, Unaccompanied, Wedding dance song, ILAM | Translated English title - "Wherever you go I follow." Further details refer ILAM field card number: E1B 27
- Artist(s): Chaga girls (Performer) | Composer: Yuspina Gadwin (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950/10/05 | Chaga, Chaga, Dance song, East African, Folk music, Gadwin,Yuspina, Indigenous music, Kilimanjaro, Marangu, Stamping, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Temo dance, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: D7F-1
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