South African Music Archive Project
Indigenous music
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- Composer: Willie Gumede & CoComposer not specified | 1952-00-00 | Indigenous music, Rattle, Rumba, Southern African, Willie Gumede, Willie Gumede & Co, Zulu, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR3320.
- Artist(s): Shona men (Performer) | Composer: Tutai (Performer)Composer not specified | 1928-00-00 | Agricultural song, Indigenous music, Karanga, Shona, Shona, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Threshing Song, Tutai, Unaccompanied, Work Song, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record number: TP3732
- Composer: Performer not specifiedHugh Tracey (Composer) | 1933-00-00 | Bikila, Indigenous music, Rattle, South Rhodesia, Southern African, Tracey, Hugh, Vocal, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM reel number: A70.
- Composer: Manxele Qwabe & her cruel witchdoctorsManxele Qwabe(Composer) | 1905/05/13 | Ceskei, Clapping, Drum, Eastern Cape, Indigenous music, Manxele Qwabe, Manxele Qwabe & her cruel witchdoctors, Pondo, Pondolond, South Africa, Southern African, Transkei, Vocal, Xhosa, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR1020
- Composer: Manxele Qwabe & her cruel witchdoctorsManxele Qwabe(Composer) | 1905/05/13 | Ceskei, Clapping, Eastern Cape, Indigenous music, Manxele Qwabe, Manxele Qwabe & her cruel witchdoctors, Pondo, Pondolond, South Africa, Southern African, Transkei, Vocal, Xhosa, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR1020
- Composer: Chewa men and a Chewa woman (Performer) | 1949/09/03 | Chewa, Chewa, Clapping, Dowa Boma, Drinking song, Entertainment song, Folk music, Indigenous music, Malawi, Nyanja, Nyasaland, Southern African, ILAM | Drinking entertainment song with Chewe men and one woman with clapping. Translated English title - "Which is the top of the world? (Which is the right side up?)" Further details refer ILAM field card (C5A9).
- Artist(s): Chewa men and women (Composer/Performer) | Composer: Chewa men and women (Composer/Performer) | 1949/09/03 | Chewa, Chewa, drinking, East African, Entertainment, Indigenous music, Malawi, Nyanja, Nyasaland, Song, Southern African, ILAM | Song performed by Chewa men and women for entertainment and is sung in call and response fashion. The song is unaccompanied. Refer ILAM field card C5A9
- Artist(s): Zande Men (Performer) | Composer: Mozua Manzali, Chief Gatanga and Mongonika (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952/09/02 | Belgian Congo, Central African, Chief Gatanga Mongonika, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African, Folk song, Hand clapping, Harp, Indigenous music, Kundi harp, Mozua Manzali, Strings, Topical song, Zande, Zande, ILAM | Topical song. Further details refer ILAM field card F4W-2
- Composer: Arnold brothers (Performer) | 1956-00-00 | Arnold brothers, Indigenous music, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number: CR2883.
- 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
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