South African Music Archive Project
mourning
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- Artist(s): Nasuti Social Club (Performer) | Composer: Nasuti Social Clu | 1950/09/02 | Central African, Eight Budongo, Eleven note Likembe mbira, Folk music, Indigenous music, mourning, Nasuti Social Club, Nsaasi flat tin rattle, Soga, Song, Traditional music, Uganda, ILAM | Mourning song accompanied by various indigenous instruments. Further details refer ILAM field card number D5Y2
- Artist(s): Nasuti Social Club (Performer) | Composer: Nasuti Social Clu | 1950/09/02 | Central African, Eight Budongo, Eleven note Likembe mbira, Indigenous music, Likembe, Mbira, mourning, Nasuti Social Club, Nsaasi flat tin rattle, Soga, Song, Traditional music, Uganda, ILAM | Mourning song accompanied by various indigenous instruments. Further details refer ILAM field card number D5Y2
- Artist(s): Nekemiya Nanywamu (Performer)Kasani Byansi (Performer) | Composer: Nekemiya NanywamuKasani Byansi | 1950/09/02 | Central African, Chordophone, East African, eight string lyre, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kasani Byansi, mourning, Ndingidi, Ndingidi one string lute, Nekemiya Nanywamu, Ntongoli, Soga, Song, Traditional music, Uganda, ILAM | Mourning song accompanied by the Ntongoli eight string lyre and Ndingidi one string lute. Further details refer ILAM field card number D5Y16
- Artist(s): S Mondo (Performer)Nasuti Social Club (Performer) | Composer: S MondoNasuti Social Clu | 1950/09/02 | Central African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Lament, Leprosy, Mondo,S., mourning, Nasuti Social Club, Ntongoli eight string lyre, Soga, Song, topical, Traditional music, Uganda, ILAM | Topical song about a leper who is lamenting his demise and loneliness. Further details refer ILAM field card number D5Y15
- Composer: Chenda EsiteLulua women at Roan Antelope Mine | 1949/08/10 | burial, cheer, Chenda Esite, gourds, Luba, Lulua, Lulua, mourning, Northern Rhodesia, singing, Song, Southern African, Zambia, ILAM | Mourning song accompanied by 2 singing gourds, sung after the burial, to cheer up the women. Refer ILAM field card C4C5
- Artist(s): Walter Arum (Performer)Kisii Government School Choir (Performer) | Composer: Walter ArumKisii Government School Choir | 1950/09/12 | Arum,Walter, Dho Luo, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kenya, Kisii Government School choir, Lament, mourning, Song, Traditional music, ILAM | Lament. Further details refer ILAM field card number D6I4
- Artist(s): Gremio Civil Chaimite (Performer)Leader Feliciano Gomez (Composer/Performer) | Composer: Gremio Civil Chaimite (Performer)Leader Feliciano Gomez (Composer/Performer) | 1950/10/30 | Gomez,Feliciano Muntano, Gremio Civil Chaimite, Lament, Makwekwe, mourning, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Song, Southern African, Three Guitar, Tswa, ILAM | Song accompanied by three guitars. The field card says the song is a lament but it sounds lively. Refer ILAM field card number D8E3
- Artist(s): Yelele Lunga (Leader)Nsenga women (Performer) | Composer: Yelele LungaNsenga women | 1949/08/29 | Central African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kalimba, Lunga,Yele, Lungu, mourning, Northern Rhodesia, Nsenga, Song, Ten notes, Traditional music, Yelele, Zambia, ILAM | Mourning song accompanied by the Kalimba mbira. The translated title is "I stood outside the door of the Chief". Further details refer ILAM field card number C4V3
- Composer: Saini ChipwilaChokwe men and women at Roan Antelope Mine | 1949/08/09 | Chipwila,Saini, Chokwe, Chokwe, Luvale, mourning, Northern Rhodesia, Roan Antelope Mine, Song, Southern African, Unaccompanied, Zambia, ILAM | Unaccompanied mourning song. Refer ILAM field card C4B10
- Composer: Ngoni men and women at Wusakili Compound | 1949/08/04 | Clapping, mourning, Ngoni, Ngoni, Northern Rhodesia, Song, Southern African, Wusakili Compound, Zambia, ILAM | Mourning song accompanied by clapping. Refer ILAM field card C3W7
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