South African Music Archive Project
Popular music
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- Composer: Casablanca Steel Orchestra (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952-00-00 | Casablanca Steel Orchestra, Instrumental, Popular music, Steel Band, Steel Orchestra, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR0999
- Artist(s): Nyeleti ya kusha (Performer) | Composer: Nyeleti ya kusha | 1900-01-00 | dance, Guitar, Indigenous music, Man singing, Mozambique, Nyeleti ya kusha, Popular music, Portuguese, Rattle, Shangaan, Song, South Africa, South African, Traditional music, Virtuoso guitar playing, ILAM | Dance song accompanied by guitar and rattle.
- Composer: Imvumi Zesizwe (National Singers) (Performer)Composer not specified | 1900-01-00 | Cape, Ciskei, Eastern Cape, Imvumi Zesizwe, Piano, Popular music, South Africa, Southern African, Sponono, The National Singers, Transkei, Vocal, Xhosa, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR0825
- Artist(s): Naughty Boys Choir (Performer) | Composer: Naughty Boys Choir (Performer) | 1948-00-00 | Call and response, dance, Folk music, Isicathamiya, love, Mbube, Naughty Boys Choir, Part-singing, Popular music, Solo and chorus, Song, South Africa, Southern African, Unaccompanied, Zulu, ILAM | Unaccompanied Mbube style song dealing with love. Further details refer ILAM field card number DC47
- Artist(s): Madakana, S. (Conductor) | Composer: The Morning Stars (Performer)Madakana, S. (Performer - Pianist)Composer not specified | 1948-00-00 | KwaZulu-Natal, Madakana,S., Morning Stars, Natal, Piano, Popular music, South Africa, Southern African, Zulu, Zululand, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR0767
- Composer: The Lower Buttons (Performer)Queen Radebe (Composer) | 1967-00-00 | banjo, Guitar, KwaZulu-Natal, Lower Buttons, Natal, Popular music, Queen Radebe, Rhythm accompaniment, South Africa, Southern African, Vocal, Zulu, Zululand, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR0668
- Composer: George Msomi (Performer)Composer not specified | 1954-00-00 | concertina, George Msomi, KwaZulu-Natal, Natal, Popular music, South Africa, Southern African, Vocal, Zulu, Zululand, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recording) number: CR0483
- Composer: Morning Stars (Performer)Composer not specified | 1948-00-00 | KwaZulu-Natal, Morning Stars, Natal, Piano, Popular music, South Africa, Southern African, Vocal, Zulu, Zululand, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR0762
- Artist(s): Mameyigudi (Performer)Luhlanya (Performer) | Composer: MameyigudiLuhlanya | 1960/01/01 | Choir, concertina, dance, Folk music, Indigenous music, Luhlanya, Mameyigudi, Popular music, Song, South Africa, Southern African, Traditional music, Zulu, ILAM | Traditional dance song accompanied by the concertina
- Artist(s): William Mseleku (Leader)Mseluku and his merrymakers (Performer) | Composer: William MselekuMseluku and his merrymakers | 1960/01/01 | Choir, dance, Drum, Famine, Indigenous music, Locusts, Marabi style, Merrymakers, Mseleku,William, Piano, Popular music, Rhythm sticks, Song, South Africa, Southern African, Southern Natal, Traditional music, Zulu, ILAM | Song performed by a choir accompanied by various instruments. The subject deals with the famine in southern Kwazulu Natal(Natal) caused by locusts in 1923
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