South African Music Archive Project
Initiation song
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- Composer: Tumbuka women and girls(Performer) | 1950/05/23 | Clapping, Drum, Folk music, Henga, Indigenous music, Initiation song, Kasungu, Malawi, Nyasaland, Southern African, Tumbuka, Tumbuka, ILAM | Uzamba dance song -initiation song with two goblet drums and clapping. Further details refer ILAM field card (DY3)
- Artist(s): Gogo people (Performer) | Composer: Nyinamwaluku (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | bell, East African, Gogo, Gogo, Indigenous music, Initiation song, Ndwala bell, Nyinamwaluku, Tanganyika, Tanzania, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record number: TP1551
- Composer: Ikwenda, S. (Performer)Saineti Ikwenda (Performer) | 1949/09/04 | Chewa, Folk music, Ikwenda,Saineti, Indigenous music, Initiation song, Malawi, Nyanja, Nyasaland, Salima, Southern African, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Song for girls initiation ceremony. Translated English title - "A girl should kneel (when giving or taking something from her mother". Further details refer field card (C5B5)
- Composer: Habanyama, H (Performer)Hezekiya Habanyama (Performer) | 1949/08/20 | Folk music, Habanyama,Hezekiya, Indigenous music, Initiation song, Lusaka, Northern Rhodesia, Southern African, Tonga, Zambia, ILAM | Initiation ceremony song for girls with sticks. Accompanied by Tonga boys at Munali Training Centre. Further details refer ILAM field card no. C4M2.
- Composer: Composer not specifiedLongwani Nanjeko (Performer) | 1949/08/03 | Folk music, Indigenous music, Initiation song, Kangombio, Longwani, Lozi, Mbira, Nanjeko, Northern Rhodesia, Southern African, Topical song, Zambia, ILAM | Further information refer ILAM field card number: C3V-1
- Composer: Ndibu soldiers (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952/08/02 | Belgian Congo, Central African, Clapping, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Drum, Folk music, Indigenous music, Initiation song, Ndibu, Ndibu, Rattle, Republic of the Congo, Thysville, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: F4F 6
- Artist(s): Dintsa Marumolo (Leader) | Composer: Tswana men (Performer) | 1959/10/23 | Bechuanaland, Botswana, Dintsa Marumolo, Folk music, Indigenous music, Initiation song, Lengae, North Western Cape, Rolong, South Africa, Southern African, Tshidilamolomo, Tswana, Tswana, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Lengae initiation song, unaccompanied. Translated English title - "Like pulling up carrots with your hand." Further details refer ILAM field card (N1N2)
- 1900-01-00 | Indigenous music, Initiation song, South Africa, Southern African, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record AC1328.
- Composer: Ndibu soldiers (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952/08/02 | Belgian Congo, Central African, Clapping, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Drum, Folk music, Indigenous music, Initiation song, Ndibu, Ndibu, Rattle, Republic of the Congo, Thysville, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: F4F 6
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