South African Music Archive Project
Topical song
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- Artist(s): Muntano Gomez o Feliciano | 1955/08/10 | Chibuto district, Gomez o Feliciano, Muntano, Guitar, Hlanganu, Indigenous music, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Southern African, Sul do Save Province, Tonga, Topical song, ILAM | Topical song with guitar. "If you have no child it is no good. Other women have children, they fill the village. There are many men here standing in the queues for going to Johannesburg. You, my wife, you do not want to eat porridge - you want rice. There is no rice here, because I am poor. Go to the rich where they can afford rice."So she went to a rich man to get her rice, but now she gets no clothes, no shoes, and at last, no food.Details from ILAM record number TP4274-H1P14
- Artist(s): K. Daniel (Performer) | Composer: K. Daniel (Performer) | 1951/06/06 | Chimyanya, Daniel,K., Folk music, Guitar, Heroic song, Indigenous music, Kora-Kora, Malawi, Nyasaland, Southern African, Topical song, ILAM | Topical Heroic. Further details refer to ILAM filed card E2C19
- Composer: William Musanje (Performer)William Musanje (Composer) | 1951/06/04 | Chizezuru, Guitar, Indigenous music, Musanje,William, Shawasha, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Topical song, Zezuru, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: E2A 20
- Composer: George Sibanda (Composer/Performer) | 1952/02/20 | Bulawayo, Guitar, Indigenous music, Ndebele, Sibanda, George, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Topical song, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Translation: Look, look. Further details refer ILAM fieldcard F2A-5.
- Composer: George Sibanda (Composer/Performer) | 1952/02/20 | Bulawayo, Guitar, Ndebele, Sibanda, George, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Topical song, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Topical song. Further details refer ILAM field card (F2A5)
- Composer: George Sibanda (Performer)Composer not specified | 1900-01-00 | Guitar, Indigenous music, Ndebele, Sibanda, George, Southern African, Topical song, Zulu, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number: CR2680.
- Composer: George Sibanda (Composer/Performer)Sibanda, George (Composer/Performer) | 1952/02/20 | Bulawayo, Guitar, Ndebele, Sibanda, George, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Topical song, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Topical song with guitar. Translated English title - "Look, look." Further details refer ILAM field card (F2A5)
- Artist(s): Boys of Kitovu Technical School (Performer) | Composer: Evaristo N. Muyinda (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952/06/29 | Drum, East African, Evaristo N. Muyinda, Folk music, Ganda, Indigenous music, Kitovu Technical School, Madinda xylophone, Masaka, Topical song, Uganda, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: F3R 4
- Composer: Royike Molahlehi and company (Performer)Composer not specified | 1947-00-00 | Basutoland, Clapping, Lesotho, Royike Molahlehi, Sotho, South Sotho, Southern African, Topical song, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record number: TP3391
- Composer: Gabriel Yumba (Performer)Gabriel Yumba (Composer) | 1952/01/15 | Bemba, Guitar, Mufulira, Northern Rhodesia, Southern African, Topical song, Yumba,Gabriel, Zambia, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: F1F 8
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