South African Music Archive Project
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- Composer: Kaluta Amri Bin Abedi (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kaluta Amri bin Abedi, Mashairi, Nguja, Poetry, Song, Swahili, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Mashairi Song Poem. Further details refer ILAM shellac record number TP1694
- Composer: Kaluta Amri Bin Abedi (Composer/Performer) | 1950/07/18 | East African, Kaluta Amri bin Abedi, Nguja, Poetry, Song, Swahili, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Sung Poem. Further details refer to ILAM card no D4C22Exhortations
- Composer: Kaluta Amri Bin Abedi (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | East African, Kaluta Amri bin Abedi, Mashairi, Nguja, Poetry, Song, Swahili, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Ujiji, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number CR1406.
- Composer: Chopi women at Zandamela | 1949/06/02 | Chopi, Chopi, Mozambique, party, Portuguese East Africa, Song, Southern African, Zandamela, ILAM | Song is about the mother of the chiefRefer ILAM field card CL8
- Composer: Alume AcharoGiryama men | 1950/10/16 | Acharo,Alume, dance, East African, Giryama, Giryama, Kafulani, Kenya, men and women, Nika, Song, ILAM | Kafulani dance song for men and womenRefer ILAM field card D7Q7
- Composer: Chenda EsiteLulua women at Roan Antelope Mine | 1949/08/10 | burial, cheer, Chenda Esite, gourds, Luba, Lulua, Lulua, mourning, Northern Rhodesia, singing, Song, Southern African, Zambia, ILAM | Mourning song accompanied by 2 singing gourds, sung after the burial, to cheer up the women. Refer ILAM field card C4C5
- 1960-08-00 | Accordion, Central African, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Luba, Song, Southern Congo, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record no. AC1332.
- Composer: Joseph NtabombaFilimoni MulengaBemba men at the Mufulira Mine | 1949/07/28 | Bemba, Bemba, drinking, Fiwaya rattle, Mufulira Mine, Mulenga,Filimoni, Mupukumo, Northern Rhodesia, Ntabomba,Joseph, party, Song, Southern African, Zambia, ILAM | Drinking song to accompany Mupukumo drinking party dance. It is accompanied by two rattlesRefer ILAM field card C3P21
- Composer: Boys at MapanzaYoung men and women | 1948/05/07 | Bemba, dance, Mapanza College, Northern Rhodesia, Song, Southern African, youths, Zambia, ILAM | Dance song for young men and womenRefer ILAM field card AX18
- Composer: Nyanja girls (Performer) | 1950/05/22 | Chewa, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kasungu, Malawi, Nyanja, Nyanja, Nyasaland, Poetry, Song, Southern African, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Unaccompanied poem song. Further details refer ILAM field card number DX4
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