South African Music Archive Project
Indigenous music
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- Composer: Chikunda girls and women (Performer) | 1949/09/20 | Chikunda, Chikunda, Folk music, Indigenous music, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Sena, Southern African, Tete, ILAM | Unaccompanied divination music
- Composer: Kachoka, U. (Performer)Uladi Kachoka (Performer) | 1949/08/14 | Bangwe, Board zither, Folk song, Indigenous music, Kachoka,Uladi, Northern Rhodesia, Southern African, Yao, Zambia, Zither, ILAM | Accompanied folk song. Further details refer ILAM field card (C4G12)
- Composer: Phiri, D. (Performer)Dinala Phiri (Performer) | 1949/09/12 | Bangwe, Board zither, Folk music, Indigenous music, Love song, Malawi, Nyasaland, Phiri,Dinala, Southern African, Yao, Zither, Zomba, ILAM | Love song with Bangwe board zither. Translated English title - "The young miss loves many men." Further details refer ILAM field card (C5J17a)
- Artist(s): Nyanga men of a Coy 1st Nyasaland | Composer: Uladi Kachoka (Performer) | 1949/08/14 | Bangwe, Board zither, Bwana Mkubwa Compound, Coy 1st Nyasaland, Drinking song, Flute, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kachoka,Uladi, Northern Rhodesia, Nyanga, Southern African, Tas, Zambia, Zither, ILAM | Drinking song. Further details refer to ILAM field card (C4G10)
- Composer: Uladi Kachkoka (Performer)Composer not specified | 1949/08/14 | Bangwe, Board zither, Drinking song, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kachoka,Uladi, Malawi, Nyasaland, Southern African, Yao, Zither, ILAM | Drinking song with Bangwe board zither. Translated English title - "The guilty minister."
- Composer: Uladi Kachoka (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | East African, Indigenous music, Kachoka,Uladi, Ndola, Northern Rhodesia, Rattle, Vocal, Yao, Zambia, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR3565.
- Composer: Uladi Kachoka (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | East African, Indigenous music, Kachoka,Uladi, Ndola, Northern Rhodesia, Rattle, Vocal, Yao, Zambia, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR3567.
- Artist(s): Kipsigis men | Composer: Hat Arap Kotut (Composer)Kipsigis men (Performer) | 1952-00-00 | East African, Fighting song, Indigenous music, Kapkatet, Kenya, Kericho, Kipsigis, Kipsigis, Kotut,Hat Arap, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR2103.
- Composer: Kirutit Arap Ngasura (Performer adn Composer) | 1950/09/15 | East African, Indigenous music, Kenya, Kipsigis, Kipsigis, Lyre, Ng'asura,Kinutit Arap, Praise song, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number D6L-5.
- Artist(s): Kinutit Arap Ngasura | 1950/09/15 | East African, Indigenous music, Kapkatet, Kenya, Kericho, Kibugandet lyre, Kipsigis, Kipsigis district, Ngasura, Kinutit Arap, Praise song, ILAM | A praise song with Kibugandet 5 string wish bone lyre, resonated on a parafin tin. The solo singer, singing in falsetto, praises his country and many of its desirable places. He mentions, among others, the Administrative centre at Kericho, some 25 miles away, which he says is 'full of words', referring to the information service supplied to the country by the office of the District Commissioner. This wishbone shaped frame lyre is help onto the top of an empty 4 gallon parafin tin. At the end of his song the lyre slipped off its resonator.Details from ILAM field card number: D6L 4
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