South African Music Archive Project
Topical song
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- Artist(s): Tumbuka men and women (Performer) | Composer: Thindwa, R. (Performer)Robati Thindwa (Performer) | 1949/09/12 | Concert song, Henga, Malawi, Mzimba, Nyasaland, Southern African, Thindwa,Robati, Topical song, Tumbuka, Tumbuka, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Unaccompanied concert song. Translated English title - "That husband of mine is a wanderer." Further details refer ILAM field card (C5J21)
- Composer: Shonongo, J. (Performer) | 1949/07/30 | Bisa, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kalimba, Kankobele, Mufulira, Northern Rhodesia, Shonongo,J., Southern African, Topical song, Xylophone, Zambia, ILAM | Folk music - Topical song with Kankobele accompaniment. Further details see ILAM field card (C3R6).
- Composer: Ngoleka, G.P. (Performer) Composer not specified | 1949-00-00 | Indigenous music, Malawi, Ngoleka,G.P., Nyasaland, Southern African, Topical song, Unaccompanied, Yao, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record number: TP1197
- Artist(s): Chinda Kamwana (Performer) | 1952/05/24 | Accordion, Chinda Kamwana, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kenya, Kiamuthambi, Kikuyu, Kikuyu territory, Struck iron, Topical song, ILAM | A topical song with accordian and struck iron. The accordian is used as a ground which creates a happy noise but has little, if any, melodic or harmonic relationship to the tonality or mode of the voice.Song to accompany a town dance in which men and women dance together in pairs, after the fashion of Europeans.Further details refer ILAM field card number: F3B 6
- Artist(s): Group / party (Performer) | Composer: Dick Ncube (Performer)Enoch Chuma (Performer) | 1952/02/19 | Chuma,Enoch, Guitar, Ncube,Dick, Ndebele, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Tambourine, Topical song, Violin, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Topical song with violin, guitar and tambourine. Further details refer ILAM field card (F1Z4)
- Artist(s): Bernard Sachinati (Leader) | Composer: Chimbinga Mingannju (Composer)Chokwe men (Performer) | 1949/07/27 | Chiyanda, Chokwe, Chokwe, Dance song, Indigenous music, Luvale, Mingannju,Chimbinga, Northern Rhodesia, Sachinati,Bernard, Southern African, Topical song, Unaccompanied, Zambia, ILAM | Chiyanda dance music. Further details refer ILAM Shellac record number: TP0622
- Composer: Watoya Sizangi (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952-00-00 | bell, East African, Gishu, Indigenous music, Lukiko, Silili lute, Topical song, Uganda, Watoya Sizangi, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number: CR2261.
- Artist(s): Kasomangila Husen Ishla (Leader) | Composer: Kasomangila Husen Ishla (Composer)Wachezaji wa Manyanga (Performer) | 1950/07/29 | Clapping, East African, Kasomangila Husen Ishla, Nyamwezi, Tabora, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Topical song, Wachezaji wa Manyanga, ILAM | Topical song with clapping. Translated English title - "When I sing." Further details refer ILAM field card (D4M2).
- Composer: Wachezaji wa Manyanga (Performer)K. H. Isike (Leader)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | Clapping, East African, Isike,K.H., Mwanza, Nyamwezi, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Topical song, Wachezaji wa Manyanga, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number: CR1583.
- Composer: Saini, C. (Performer)Chipwila Saini (Performer) | 1949/08/10 | Chipwila,Saini, Chokwe, Dance music, Folk music, Indigenous music, Luvale, Northern Rhodesia, Southern African, Topical song, Zambia, ILAM | Unaccompanied hunting song with Chokwe men and women. Further details refer ILAM field card (C4C17).
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