South African Music Archive Project
Lament
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- Artist(s): Cheriro Arap Korogorem | Composer: Bekyibei Arap Mosonik (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952-00-00 | Chepkongo lyre, East African, Indigenous music, Kapkatet, Kenya, Kipsigis, Korogorem,Cheriro Arap, Lament, Mosonik,Bekyibei Arap, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR2110.
- Composer: Small Kipsigis Girls (Performer)Composer not specifiedChepkorir (Leader) | 1950-00-00 | Chepkorir, Children's song, East African, Indigenous music, Kapkatet, Kenya, Kipsigis, Kipsigis, Lament, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR2162.
- Composer: Small Kipsigis Girls (Performer)Composer not specifiedChepkorir (Leader) | 1950-00-00 | Chepkorir, Children's song, East African, Indigenous music, Kapkatet, Kenya, Kipsigis, Kipsigis, Lament, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR2162.
- Artist(s): Muntano Gomez o Feliciano | 1955/10/08 | Chibuto district, Gomez o Feliciano, Muntano, Hlanganu, Lament, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Raft rattle, Southern African, Sul do Save Province, Tonga, ILAM | Lament with raft rattle. The rattle has seeds inside a hollow raft of stout grass stalks."They put poison in my beer and that is why I have nochild. I am very worried about the guitar. I do not like to meet anyone. I went to my doctor to make myself effective to get a child. I asked my uncle if he had seen the way I dance. Did the old people kill a man on account of his dancing - or does that only happen to me?"Details from ILAM field card H1P16
- Composer: Kamanga, B. (Composer/Performer)Beti Kamanga (Composer/Performer) | 1950/05/29 | Bangwe, Chinteche, Kamanga,Beti, Lament, Malawi, Nyasaland, Raft zither, Southern African, Tonga, Zither, ILAM | Lament with Bangwe zither. Translated English title - "We remember the Vifya' . Further details refer ILAM field card (D2E24)
- Composer: Beti Kamanga (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | Bangwe, East African, Indigenous music, Kamanga,Beti, Lament, Malawi, Nyasaland, Southern African, Tonga, Zither, ILAM | Lament for disaster with Bangwe zither. Further details refer ILAM shellac record number: TP1478
- Composer: Bekyibei Arap Mosonik (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | East African, Indigenous music, Kapkatet, Kenya, Kibugandet lyre, Kipsigis, Lament, Mosonik,Bekyibei Arap, Praise song, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR2162.
- Artist(s): Nkonde men and women (Performer) | Composer: Enosi Mongoka (Performer) | 1950/06/04 | East African, Enosi Mongoka, Lament, Nkonde, Nkonde, Nyakyusa, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Tukuyu, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Lament, unaccompanied. Composer unknown. Further details refer ILAM field card (D2M2)
- Artist(s): Siyanaloli Sanyila (Composer/Performer)Unidentified others (Performer) | Composer: Siyanaloli Sanyila (Composer/Performer)Unidentified others (Performer) | 1950-00-00 | burial, Call and response, chant, Drone, East African, Lament, mourning, Nyakyusa, Siyanaloli Sanyila, Song, Tanganyika, Tanzania, traditional, ILAM | Burial song with drone, call and response, and lament like qualities. ILAM field card number is unknown
- Artist(s): Siyanaloli Sanyila (Composer/Performer)Unidentified others (Performer) | Composer: Siyanaloli Sanyila (Composer/Performer)Unidentified others (Performer) | 1950-00-00 | burial, Call and response, chant, Drone, East African, Lament, mourning, Nyakyusa, Siyanaloli Sanyila, Song, Tanganyika, Tanzania, traditional, Unidentified others, ILAM | Burial song with drone, call and response, and lament like qualities. ILAM field card number is unknown
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