South African Music Archive Project
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- Artist(s): Maini Nakwenda (Composer/Performer)Belifa Nyabande (Performer)Young women (Performer) | Composer: Maini Nakwenda (Composer/Performer)Belifa Nyabande (Performer)Young women (Performer) | 1950-00-00 | Chewa, Hocketing, Makwenda,Mani, Malawi, Mortar and pestle, Nyabanda,Balifa, Nyanja, Nyasaland, Song, Southern African, Young women, ILAM | Song performed by young women accompanied by the pounding of a mortar and pestle. The song has hocketing effects. ILAM field card number is unknown
- Composer: Chabarwa Musunda | 1948/04/30 | mbira Njaridza Manjanja, minstrelsy, Musunda,Chabarwa, Njanja, Shona, Song, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Minstrel song with mbira Njaridza ManjanjaRefer ILAM field card AQ19
- Composer: Weleka Lumbe (Performer)Weleka Lumbe (Composer) | 1950/04/29 | Bangwe, Board zither, East African, Indigenous music, Lumbe,Weleka, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Sena, Song, Southern African, Zither, ILAM | Song with eleven note Bangwe board zither. Translated English title - "Crying for mothers." Further details refer ILAM field card number: DA-14
- Composer: Neleka Lumbe (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | Bangwe zithe, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Lumbe,Neleka, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Sena, Song, Southern African, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record number: TP2774
- Artist(s): Kipsigis girls | Composer: Chemutoi Ketienya (Performer and Composer) | 1950/09/15 | East African, Humorous, Kenya, Kericho, Ketienya,Chemutoi, Kipsigis, Kipsigis, Lyre, Song, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card no. D6L22a.
- Artist(s): Chemutoi Ketienya with Kipsigis girls | 1950/09/15 | Chepkongo bowl lyre, East African, Humorous, Indigenous music, Kenya, Ketienya, Chemutoi, Kipsigis, Kipsigis, Kipsigis, Song, ILAM | A humorous song with Chepkongo 6 string bowl lyre. The mysterious singer and dancer, Chemirocha has been turned into a local god Pan with the feet of an antelope, half beast, half man. He is urged by the girls to do the leaping dance familiar to all Kipsigis so energetically that he will jump clear out of his clothes. The name Chemirocha is based upon the guitarist Jimmy Rodgers.Details from ILAM field card number: D6L 22
- Composer: Jimmy Rogers (Composer)Chemutoi Ketienya (Performer) | 1952-00-00 | Chepkongo lyre, East African, Humorous, Indigenous music, Jimmy Rogers, Kapkatet, Kenya, Ketienya,Chemutoi, Kipsigis, Song, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR2121.
- Composer: Alubina NsofuNsenga girls | 1949/08/01 | Chitelele, Clapping, dance, girls, Northern Rhodesia, Nsenga, Nsenga, Nsofu,Alubina, Song, Southern African, Zambia, ILAM | Chitelele dance song performed by very young girls and accompanied by clapping. Refer ILAM field card C3T7
- Artist(s): Leader Ndala Ibrahim (Performer)Jazi dawa ya shaba (Performer) | Composer: Leader Ndala Ibrahim (Performer)Jazi dawa ya shaba (Performer) | 1950-00-00 | dance, East African, Guitar, Jazi dawa ya shaba, men, Ndala Ibrahim, Popular, singing, Song, Swahili, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Whistling, ILAM | Rumba dance performed on guitars and accompanied by whistling. ILAM field card number is unknown
- Composer: Th. Limeme | 1949/06/07 | Chopi, dance, Guitar, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Song, Southern African, Th. Limeme, ILAM | Town dance song with guitar accompanimentRefer ILAM field card CQ5
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