South African Music Archive Project
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- Composer: Musekiwa Mate (Performer)Composer not specified | 1900-01-00 | Guitar, Indigenous music, Mate,Musekiwa, Shona, Song, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Vocal, Zezuru, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record (Commercial Recordings) number: CR0094
- Artist(s): Birikita I nusu (Performer/Lead)Teso women (Performer) | Composer: Birikita I nusu (Performer/Lead)Teso women (Performer) | 1950/09/04 | Birikita I nusu, Central African, double sided bass drum, Drum, Morality, sickness, single laced conical drum, Song, Sticks Metal rattles, Teso, Teso, topical, Uganda, ILAM | Topical song about someone with an immoral past, who has escaped falling ill to a mysterious illness afflicting many others. Refer ILAM field card number D6A10
- Composer: Composer not specifiedJoseph Sigar (Performer) | 1900-01-00 | Accordion, Bottle, concertina, East African, Indigenous music, Joseph Sigar, Kenya, Luo, Song, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number TP0460-ABC12240
- Artist(s): Hodzi Katsukumya (Performer) | Composer: Hodzi Katsukumya (Performer) | 1949/09/23 | Budya, Hodzi Katsukunya, Humorous, Indigenous music, Korekore, Madebe dza mondoro mbira, Mbira, Northern Rhodesia, Song, Southern African, Zambia, ILAM | Humorous song accompanied by the Madebe dza Mondoro mbiras of the Tonga. Refer ILAM field card C5U12
- Composer: Group of boys (Performer) | 1948/04/26 | Budya, Humorous, Indigenous music, Mtoko, Song, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Folk music humorous song sung by boys with leaderFurther details refer ILAM field card (AM19)
- Composer: Hodzi Katsukunya (Performer and Composer)Bambu (Performer) | 1948/04/26 | Bambu, Budya, Hodzi Katsukunya, Humorous, Madebe, Mtoko, Rattle, Song, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Humorous song with madebe and rattle accompanimentFurther details refer ILAM field card (AM11)
- Artist(s): Malindisa (Leader)Dlamini (Leader) | Composer: Composer not specifiedSwazi men (Performer) | 1900-01-00 | Dlamini, Indigenous music, Malindisa, Song, Southern African, Swazi, Swazi, Swaziland, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record TP0147-ABC3278
- Artist(s): Albert Kaswabilanda (Performer)John Ouwerx (Performer)Ensemble Lolaka (Performer) | Composer: Albert Kaswabilanda John OuwerxEnsemble Lolaka | 1900-01-00 | Belgian Congo, Central African, Clave rhythm, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ensemble Lolaka, Guitar, Indigenous music, Kaswabilanda,Albert, men and women, Ouwerx,John, Popular music, Rhythm sticks, Rumba, Song, ILAM | Rumba dance song performed on various instruments, with men and women singing.
- Composer: Composer not specifiedMasuluke's Pretoria Singers (Performer) | 1900-01-00 | Accordion, concertina, East African, Indigenous music, Masuluke's Pretoria Singers, Masuluke,T.M., Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Shangaan, Song, South Africa, Southern African, Transvaal, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record number TP0551-ABC238
- Composer: Kamanga, B. (Performer) | 1951/06/14 | Guitar, Humorous, Kamanga,Beti, Song, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Zezuru, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Morality song with guitar. Further details refer ILAM field card (E2K5)
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