South African Music Archive Project
Topical song
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- Composer: Masudi Bin Amani (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | Drum, East African, Indigenous music, Masudi Bin Amani, Nyamwezi, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Topical song, ILAM | Topical Song. Further details refer ILAM shallec record number TP1704
- Composer: Composer not specifiedFrans Sema (Performer)Sema, F. (Performer) | 1950-00-00 | Autoharp, Indigenous music, North Sotho, Pedi, Sema,Frans, Sotho, South Africa, Southern African, Topical song, Transvaal, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record number TP0513-ABC13149
- Artist(s): Muntano Gomez o Feliciano | 1955/08/10 | Chibuto district, East African, Gomez o Feliciano, Muntano, Guitar, Indigenous music, Mozambique, Ndau, Portuguese East Africa, Sul do Save Province, Topical song, ILAM | Topical song with guitar. Feliciano's pronunciation of Ndau words, they say, is like a child's speech. "Matsaire, you have finished all the people." Matsaire was killed in a certain village, and his ghost came back demanding recompense, under pain of death to all the village. Details from ILAM field card (H1P-10, 11 - 25).
- Artist(s): Bamba men (Performer) | Composer: Abugu Kisukwe (Performer) | 1950/08/23 | Bamba, Bunyoro, Central African, Drum, East African, Indigenous music, Kisukwe,Abugu, Likembe mbira, Morality song, Nyoro, Tongoli harp, Topical song, Toro, Uganda, ILAM | Translated English title - "Flowers." Further details refer ILAM field card number: D5O-1
- Composer: Bulasiyo Namawa (Performer and Composer) | 1950/09/05 | Bulasiyo Namawa, East African, Gishu, Lyre, Mbale, Topical song, Uganda, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card no. D6B10B.
- Composer: Bulasiyo Namawa (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | Bulasiyo Namawa, East African, Gishu, Indigenous music, Lidungu harp, Lukiko, Topical song, Uganda, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number: CR2262.
- Artist(s): Two Wangale men (Performer) | Composer: Mbanga Maria (Performer)Mbanga Maria (Composer) | 1949/07/07 | Belgian Congo, Bottle, Central African, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Indigenous music, Likembe, Maria,Mbanga, Mbira, Ngala, Republic of the Congo, Topical song, Wangale, Zaire, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: C2U-12
- Composer: Francis Muyambo (Performer)Composer not specified | 1951-00-00 | Francis Muyambo, Indigenous music, Mount Silinda, Ndau, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Topical song, Unaccompanied, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record number: TP2394
- Composer: Henri (de Bon Coeur) Bembele (Performer and Composer)Bembele (Performer) | 1952/08/21 | Belgian Congo, Central African, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Friction stick, Guitar, Henri (de Bon Coeur) Bembele, Ngwana, Stanleyville, Swahili, Topical song, ILAM | Further information refer ILAM field card number F4P-8.
- Artist(s): Misomba Victor (Performer) | Composer: Ilunga Patrice (Composer/Performer) | 1957/07/26 | Belgian Congo, Bottle, Central African, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guitar, Hemba, Indigenous music, Luba, Patrice,Ilunga, Topical song, Victor,Misomba, ILAM | Translation: Mbwiya son of Chalo (Performer)
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