South African Music Archive Project
topical
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- Artist(s): J Knox-Bokwe (Composer)Hope Fountain Native Girls Choir (Performer)Maria Gwebu (Soloist) | Composer: Hope Fountain Native Girls Choir (Performer) | 1900-01-00 | Choir, girls, Gwebu,Maria, Hope Fountain Native Girls Choir, Knox-Bokwe,J., Ndebele, Piano, political, Secular music, South Africa, Southern African, topical, Traditional music, ILAM | Topical song performed by a choir with girls, accompanied by the piano
- Artist(s): Zakaria Kasara (Composer)Endongo za Buganda (Performer) | Composer: Zakaria Kasara (Performer)Endongo za Buganda (Performer) | 1950/08/30 | Central African, Drum, Endongo bowl lyre with 8 strings, Endongo za Buganda, Ganda, Ndingidi, Ntenga, Ntenga single laced conical drum, one string bowed lute, Respect, Song, topical, traditional, Uganda, Zakaria Kasara, ILAM | Topical song asking people in Uganda to love one another. The song is accompanied by several traditional instruments. Refer ILAM field card number D5V7
- Artist(s): Zakaria Kasara (Composer)Endongo za Buganda (Performer) | Composer: Zakaria Kasara (Performer)Endongo za Buganda (Performer) | 1950/08/30 | bowl lyre with 8 strings, Central African, Drum, Endongo, Endongo za Buganda, Ganda, Ndingidi, Ntenga, one string bowed lute, Respect, single laced conical drum, Song, topical, traditional, Uganda, Zakaria Kasara, ILAM | Topical song asking people in Uganda to love one another. The song is accompanied by several traditional instruments. Refer ILAM field card number D5V6
- Artist(s): Zakaria Kasasa (Leader)Endongo za Baganda (Performer) | Composer: Zakaria KasasaEndongo za Baganda | 1950/08/30 | Central African, eight string bowl lyre, Endongo, Endongo za Buganda, Folk music, Ganda, Indigenous music, Laced conical drum, Ndingidi, Ntenga, one string lute, Song, topical, Traditional music, Uganda, Zakaria Kasara, ILAM | A topical school song. Further details refer ILAM field card number D5V6
- Artist(s): Abimereki Wesonga (Performer) | Composer: Abimereki Wesonga (Performer) | 1950/09/05 | Central African, Gishu, Lute, Prostitution, Song, topical, traditional, Uganda, Wesonga,Abinereki, ILAM | Topical song about prostitutes who are always in trouble and do not know the reason. Refer ILAM field card D6B9
- Artist(s): Musolwa (Performer)Gishu men (Performer) | Composer: Musolwa (Performer)Gishu men (Performer) | 1950/09/05 | Bowl doubles as serving bowl and music instrument, Cassava, Central African, Gishu, Gishu, Greedy man, Inverted bowl played with sticks, Musolwa, Song, topical, traditional, Uganda, ILAM | Topical song about a greedy man who visits everyone for the purpose of eating more cassava. Refer ILAM field card number D6B6
- Composer: Barrie Passeli Brothers | 1951/06/14 | banjo, Guitar, Paseli Brothers, Paseli,Bari, Song, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, topical, Yao, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Topical song accompanied by guitar and banjo. Refer ILAM field card E2K15
- Artist(s): Deab Rizgala (Performer) | Composer: Deab Rizgala (Performer) | 1950/09/04 | Central African, Deab Rizgala, Guitar, Nubi?, political, Song, Sudanese, topical, Uganda, Uganda conflict, ILAM | Topical song about the political relationship between Sudan and Uganda. Refer ILAM field card number D6A20
- Composer: Eliya Chaya | 1950/05/26 | Bango, delectative, Eliya Chaya, Henga, Malawi, Nyasaland, Song, Southern African, topical, Tumbuka, Zither, ILAM | Topical self-delectative song accompanied by the Bango board zither. Refer ILAM field card D2A6a
- Artist(s): Dick Ncube (Performer)Enoch Chuma (Performer)Samson Ncube (Performer) | Composer: Dick Ncube (Performer)Enoch Chuma (Performer)Samson Ncube (Performer) | 1951-00-00 | banjo, Chuma,Enoch, Dance-like, Guitar, Ncube,Dick, Ncube,Samson, Ndebele, Popular, Song, South Africa, Southern African, topical, Violin, Zulu, ILAM | Dance-like topical song accompanied by string instruments. ILAM field card number is unknown
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