South African Music Archive Project
Indigenous music
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- Composer: Egesi Londoni (Performer)Composer not specified | 1949-00-00 | Bangwe, Bangwe wa m'kulu, East African, Indigenous music, Londoni,Egesi, Malawi, Nyasaland, Southern African, Topical song, Yao, Zither, ILAM | Topical song with Bangwe wa m'kulu zither. Further details refer ILAM shellac record number: TP1178
- Composer: Dundee Wandering Singers (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952-00-00 | Dundee Wandering Singers, Folk music, Indigenous music, South Africa, Southern African, Zulu, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number: CR3352.
- Composer: Traditional Zululand War Dancers (Performer)Composer not specified | 1900-01-00 | Dance song, Indigenous music, KwaZulu-Natal, Natal, South Africa, Southern African, Traditional Zululand War Dancers, Unaccompanied, Vocal, War cry, Zulu, Zulu, Zululand, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR0830
- Composer: Zululand War Dancers (Performer)Composer not specified | 1930-00-00 | Dance song, Indigenous music, KwaZulu-Natal, Natal, South Africa, Southern African, Unaccopmpanied, Vocal, Zulu, Zulu, Zululand, Zululand War Dancers, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR0891
- Artist(s): Duma men (Performer) | Composer: Shoko, J. (Performer)Jeke Shoko (Performer) | 1949/10/14 | Bikita, Duma, Duma, Folk music, Huzi Bikita, Indigenous music, Karanga, Shoko,Jeke, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Story Song, Unaccompanied, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Story song, unaccompanied with Duma men. Further details refer ILAM field card (C6P14)
- Composer: Paseli Brothers (Performer)Composer not specified | 1905/05/07 | Drum, Guitar, Indigenous music, Malawi, Nyasaland, Paseli Brothers, Southern African, Vocal, Yao, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR12248
- Artist(s): Muntano Gomez o Feliciano | 1955/08/10 | Chibuto district, Gomez o Feliciano, Muntano, Guitar, Hlanganu, Indigenous music, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Southern African, Sul do Save Province, Tonga, Topical song, ILAM | Topical song with guitar. " At your home you give a person to the spirit Sikwembo. But at my house we only give a chicken to Sikwembo. Then we kill a second chicken and cook sadza porridge so that the spirit's fowl may come and eat both the sadza and the cooked fowl." The song refers to an argument between a man and wife and the diviner through whom the spirit is approached.Details from ILAM record number TP4274-H1P16
- Composer: Barrie Passeli Brothers (Performer)Barrie Passeli Brothers (Composer) | 1951/06/13 | banjo, Guitar, Indigenous music, Paseli Brothers, Paseli,Bari, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Topical song, Yao, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: E2J 7
- Composer: Salisbury Male Voice Choir (Performer)Composer not specified | 1951-00-00 | East African, Guitar, Indigenous music, Piano, Rattle, Salisbury Male Voice Choir, Shona, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR3089.
- Composer: Daniel Marivate and Co (Performer)Composer not specified | 1951-00-00 | Daniel Marivate, East African, Indigenous music, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Rattle, Shangaan, Southern African, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR2987.
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