South African Music Archive Project
Song
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- Artist(s): The Basuto Choir (Performer) | Composer: The Basuto Choir | 1900-01-00 | Basotho, Call and response, Chant like accompaniment, Choir, Indigenous music, Men singing, Part singing, Popular music, Song, Sotho, South Africa, South African, Traditional music, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Unaccompanied song, with a solo voice accompanied by choir with repeated drone or chant-like melody.
- Artist(s): Boogie Woogie Songsters (Performer)Tsaba-tsaba (Leader) | Composer: Boogie Woogie Songsters (Performer)Tsaba-tsaba (Leader) | 1951-00-00 | Boogie Woogie Songsters, Chorus, Guitar, men and women, Ndebele, Popular, Song, South Africa, Southern African, Tsaba-tsaba, Whistling, Zulu, ILAM | Song with man whistling in the introduction and supported by a choir of men and women. ILAM field card number is unknown
- Composer: Composer not specifiedWilson Ramfumedzi (Performer)Jack Masale (Performer) | 1900-01-00 | Indigenous music, Jack Masale, Mbira, Song, South Africa, Southern African, Transvaal, Venda, Vendaland, Wilson Ramfumedzi, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number TP0444-ABC11858
- Artist(s): Hamisi Mrisho (Performer)Omari Mweinyioembe (Performer)Yasini Simba (Performer) | Composer: Omari Mweinyioembe (Performer)Hamisi Mrisho (Performer)Yasini Simba (Performer) | 1950/07/17 | Basket rattle, chant, East African, Framed drum, Hamisi Mrisho, Laced drum, Metal cylindrical drum, Muslim, Nguja, Omari Mweinyioembe, prayer, religious, Song, Swahili, Tanganyika, Tanzania, traditional, Xylophone, Yasini Simba, ILAM | Muslim prayer accompanied by various instruments including one that sounds either like a zither or a mbira. Refer ILAM field card number D4B3
- Composer: Sabelo Mate (Performer) | 1948/05/13 | Bulawayo, Humorous, Ndebele, Sabelo Mate, Song, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Folk SongFurther details refer ILAM field card (A2D6)
- Artist(s): Egyptian Musical Band (Performer) | Composer: Egyptian Musical Band (Performer) | 1950/07/10 | Arabic, East African, Egyptian Music Club, Instrumental, Nguja, Solo, Song, Swahili, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Violin, Without words, ILAM | Instrumental love song performed on solo violin. Refer ILAM field card number D3U9
- Artist(s): Beti Kamanga (Performer) | Composer: Beti Kamanga (Performer) | 1950-00-00 | Bangwe zithe, Kamanga,Beti, Malawi, Man singing, nostalgic, Nyasaland, Song, Southern African, Tonga, topical, traditional, ILAM | Nostalgic song accompanied on the Bangwe zither. ILAM field card is unknown
- Artist(s): Aliwal North Sesotho Choir (Performer) | Composer: Aliwal North Sesotho Choir (Performer) | 1900-01-00 | Aliwal North Sesotho Choir, Choir, dance, men and women, Part-singing, Piano, Popular music, Secular music, Song, Sotho, South Africa, Southern African, Traditional music, ILAM | Song accompanied by the piano
- Composer: Jairos Musaroro | 1948/04/24 | Jairos Musaroro, ritual, Song, Southern African, Tuliman, Zezuro, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Spirits ritual with theme played on TulimbaRefer ILAM field card AK6
- Artist(s): H. T. Tracey (Conductor) | Composer: Tawengwa (Performer)Composer not specified | 1933-00-00 | Bikita, Humorous, Indigenous music, Karanga, Shona, Song, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Tawengwa, Tracey, Hugh, Tracey,H. T., Unaccompanied, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Translation: The song of the night jar. Further details refer ILAM shellac record number TP3738.
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