South African Music Archive Project
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- Artist(s): Omari Mweinyioembe (Performer)Yasini Simba (Performer)Hamisi Mrisho (Performer) | Composer: Omari Mweinyioembe (Performer)Yasini Simba (Performer)Hamisi Mrisho (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 like a xylophone. Refer ILAM field card number D4B4
- Composer: Davide SapaoHenga men at the Mufulira Mine | 1949/07/29 | concerts, Davide Sapao, Henga, Henga, Mufulira Mine, nationalism, Northern Rhodesia, school, Song, Southern African, Zambia, ILAM | School song for concerts
- Composer: Young boys at Elias Hazis Bakery | 1949/05/24 | Bila, dough, Elias Hazis Bakery, kneading, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Shangaan, Song, Southern African, working, ILAM | Work song to accompany kneading of breadRefer ILAM field card CD1
- Composer: Muzeruru men | ############################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################### | burial, Guitar, Muzeruru, Song, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Zezuro, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Burial song accompanied by guitarRefer ILAM field card AP6
- Artist(s): Randolph Simmons (Leader)The Casablanca Steel Orchestra (Performer) | Composer: Randolph SimmonsThe Casablanca Steel Orchestra | 1900-01-00 | Calypso, Caribbean, Clarinet, Creole, dance, Guitar, Popular music, Randolph Simmons, Repetitive melodic fragments, Saxophone, Song, Steel pans, The Casablanca Steel Orchestra, Traditional music, Trinidad, trumpet, ILAM | Calypso dance song performed on various instruments. The voices sing repetitive chorus lines rather than long melody. Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR1000
- Composer: St Cecilia's Choir | 1951/05/22 | Basutoland, Catholic, Christian, Hymn, Lesotho, Religion, Song, Sotho, South Sotho, Southern African, St. Cecilia's Choir Roma Mission, ILAM | Catholic hymn. Refer ILAM field card E1B2
- Artist(s): Karanga people (Performer) | Composer: Karanga people (Performer)Composer not specified | 1949-00-00 | Duma, Indigenous music, Karanga, Karanga, Song, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Unaccompanied, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record number: TP1227
- Composer: Paulosi Jere (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950/05/26 | Bango board zithe, East African, Folk music, Henga, Indigenous music, Jere,Paulosi, Malawi, Mzimba, Nyasaland, Song, Southern African, story, Tumbuka, ILAM | Translated English title - "The handsome young man." Further details refer ILAM field card number: D2A 3
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