South African Music Archive Project
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- 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, Swahili, Toiya wa Mayita, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: F3A 7
- Artist(s): Ensemble Gabrielle Kiwaya (Performer) | Composer: Ensemble Gabrielle Kiwaya | 1900-01-00 | Bead rattle, Belgian Congo, Call and response, Central African, Chant-like, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Drum, Ensemble Gabrielle Kiwaya, Indigenous music, Song, Spoken introduction, Traditional music, ILAM | Traditional chant-like song accompanied by various indigenous instruments.
- Composer: Chopi women | 1949/06/02 | chief, Chopi, Chopi, death, Lament, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Song, Southern African, ILAM | Lament for a dead chiefRefer ILAM field card CL1
- Composer: Bernard Sachinati | 1948/07/27 | Chizanda, Chokwe, dance, Luvale, Northern Rhodesia, nostalgia, Sachinati,Bernard, Song, Southern African, Zambia, ILAM | Nostalgic song also used for the Chizanda dance. The subject deals with migrants who work on the copper mines and stay there for long periodsRefer ILAM field card C3O10
- Artist(s): Nyanja people (Performer) | Composer: Nyanja people (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | Chewa, Clapping, East African, Indigenous music, Malawi, Nyanja, Nyanja, Nyasaland, Singing game, Song, Southern African, ILAM | Translated English title - "Greet a friend." Further details refer ILAM shellac record number: TP1467
- Artist(s): Dudzai Sigouke (Composer/Performer) | Composer: Dudzai Sigouke (Composer/Performer) | 1951-00-00 | Dubzai Sigaure, friction bow, Male singing, Manyika, Rattle and stick, self-delectative, Song, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Man singing a self-delectative song, accompanied by the friction bow and a stick beating against a rattle. ILAM field card number is unknown
- Composer: Leader P waManzatu | 1949/06/08 | Chopi, dance, Mozambique, Mozambique, Orchestra, P. waManzantu, Portuguese East Africa, Song, Southern African, Timbila, ILAM | Orchestral dance song with Timbila xylophonesRefer ILAM field card CR9
- Artist(s): David Simfukire (Leader)Mambwe and Lungu young men (Performer) | Composer: David Simfukire (Leader)Mambwe and Lungu young men (Performer) | 1949/08/20 | Bemba, Clapping, dance, Indigenous music, Lungu, Lungu, Mambwe, Ngwai dance, Northern Rhodesia, Simfukire,David, Song, Southern African, Young men and women, Zambia, ILAM | Ngwai dance song performed by young men and women, accompanied by clapping. Refer ILAM field card C4M4
- Artist(s): Nourse Mines Basutos (Performer) | Composer: Nourse Mines Basutos | 1900-01-00 | Choir, Folk music, Indigenous music, Nourse Mines Basutos, Ramakhobotlo, recitative, Song, Sotho, South Africa, Southern African, Tin whistle, Traditional music, ILAM | Traditional song performed by a group of men
- Artist(s): Simon Yuba (Composer)Men of the second battalion at Zomba Nyasaland (Performer) | Composer: Simon Yuba (Composer)Men of the second battalion at Zomba Nyasaland (Performer) | 1949/09/11 | East African, Malawi, marching, Nyanja, Nyasaland, Second battalion at Zomba Nyasaland, Simon Yuba, Song, Southern African, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Unaccompanied song for marching. The English title is Just the same darling, just the same. Refer ILAM field card C5I1
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