South African Music Archive Project
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- Composer: Composer not specifiedLosta Abelo (Performer) | 1900-01-00 | Bottle, East African, Guitar, Indigenous music, Losta Abelo, Song, Swahili, Tanganyika, Tanzania, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record number TP0518-ABC12482
- Composer: Linu MphelelaMali SaidamiSoldiers of Batalhao Indigena de Cacadores No 2 | 1949/09/20 | Baini, Batalhao Indigena de Cacadores No 2, Chwabo, dance, Linu Mthelela, Mali Saidami, Mambila, men, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Song, Southern African, women, Xylophone, ILAM | Dance song accompanied by two men playing the Mambila xylophone. Refer ILAM field card C5R7
- Artist(s): S Mondo (Performer)Nasuti Social Club (Performer) | Composer: S MondoNasuti Social Clu | 1950/09/02 | Aeroplane, British, Central African, Folk music, God, Indigenous music, Mondo,S., Nasuti Social Club, Ntongoli eight string lyre, Soga, Song, topical, Traditional music, Uganda, ILAM | Topical song about the English failing to fly high enough with the aeroplane for a sighting of God. Further details refer ILAM field card number D5Y18
- Artist(s): S Mondo (Performer) | Composer: S Mondo | 1950/09/02 | Aeroplane, Central African, East African, English, Folk music, God, Heaven, Indigenous music, Mondo,S., Ntongoli eight string lyre, Soga, Song, topical, Traditional music, Uganda, ILAM | Topical song accompanied by the Ntongoli eight string lyre. Further details refer ILAM field card number D5Y18
- Composer: Sulumu AbdallahHehe men and children | 1950/06/13 | Clapping, dance, drinking, East African, Hehe, Hehe, Song, Sulumu Abdallah, Tanganyika, Tanzania, wedding, ILAM | Wedding dance song also used as a drinkin song for menThe song is accompanied by clapping and children's voicesRefer ILAM field card D2T7
- Artist(s): Herero singers (Performer) | Composer: Composer not specifiedKanane Puriza (Performer) | 1900-01-00 | Clapping, Herero, Herero, Indigenous music, Kanane Puriza, Song, Southern African, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number TP0410-ABC11137
- Artist(s): Jafete Simbini Alexandra (Performer) | Composer: Jafete Simbini Alexandra | 1965-00-00 | dance, Guitar, Indigenous music, Jafete Simbini Alexandra, Man singing, Mandoline, Mozambique, Popular music, Portuguese, Portuguese East Africa, Shangaan, Song, Southern African, ILAM | Dance song accompanied by guitar and mandoline
- Composer: The Sea Waves Choir (Performer)Johanna Nkosi (Composer) | 1900-01-00 | Humorous, Indigenous music, Johanna Nkosi, Sea Waves Choir, Serolong, Sesotho, Sketch, Song, South Africa, Southern African, ILAM | Humorous sketch. Further details refer ILAM shellac record number TP3838.
- Artist(s): Giriyama Drummers (Performer) | Composer: Toiya wa Mayita (Performer)Toiya wa Mayita (Composer) | 1952/05/23 | Bumbumbu drum, Drum, East African, Giriyama, Giriyama, Humorous, Indigenous music, Kalifi, Kenya, Mushondo drum, Song, Toiya wa Mayita, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: F3A 6
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