South African Music Archive Project
Topical song
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- Artist(s): Chaga Men | Composer: Shabaa Kasiani (Performer)Composer not specified | 1951-00-00 | Chaga, Chaga, East African, Indigenous music, Marangu, Moshi, Shaba Kasiani, Shicheyere bells, Tanzania, Topical song, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR2497.
- Artist(s): Hugh Tracey (Conductor) | Composer: Babu (Performer)Gumure (Performer)Composer not specified | 1930-00-00 | Babu, Gumure, Indigenous music, Karanga, Shona, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Topical song, Tracey, Hugh, Unaccompanied, Vocal, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR0838
- Artist(s): Zulu singers (Performer) | Composer: Composer not specifiedConathan Choristers (Performer) | 1946-00-00 | Bechuanaland, Botswana, Choir, Choral music, Conathan Choristers, Indigenous music, Piano, Rolong, Serelong, South Africa, Southern African, Topical song, Tswana, Zulu, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number TP0055-ABC408
- Composer: Weleka Lumbe (Performer) | 1950/04/29 | Bangwe, Board zither, East African, Indigenous music, Lumbe,Weleka, Mozambique, Ndebele, Portuguese East Africa, Southern African, Topical song, Zither, ILAM | Topical song with eleven note Bangwe board zither. Translated English title - "Be quiet my child." Further details refer ILAM field card number: DA-13
- Composer: Composer not specifiedMakhubele, J. (Performer)John Makhubele (Performer) | 1948-00-00 | Guitar, Indigenous music, KwaZulu-Natal, Makhubele,John, Natal, South Africa, Southern African, Topical song, Zulu, Zululand, ILAM | Topical song with guitar. Further details refer ILAM record TP0024-ABC380
- Composer: Waterkloof Choir (Performer)Composer not specified | 1946-00-00 | Choir, Choral music, Indigenous music, KwaZulu-Natal, Natal, South Africa, Southern African, Topical song, Unaccompanied, Waterkloof Choir, Zulu, Zululand, ILAM | Zulu choir. Further details refer ILAM record TP0013-XYZABC102
- Composer: Londoni, E. (Performer)Egesi Londoni (Performer) | 1949/09/12 | Bangwe, Folk music, Indigenous music, Londoni,Egesi, Malawi, Nyasaland, Southern African, Topical song, Yao, Zither, Zomba, ILAM | Topical song with Bangwe zither. Translated English title - "Let us talk Miss Mwenye." Further details refer ILAM field card (C5J12)
- Composer: Egesi Londoni (Performer)Composer not specified | 1949-00-00 | Bangwe, Bangwe wa m'kulu, East African, Indigenous music, Londoni,Egesi, Malawi, Nyasaland, Southern African, Topical song, Yao, Zither, ILAM | Topical song with Bangwe wa m'kulu zither. Further details refer ILAM shellac record number: TP1177
- Composer: Egesi Londoni (Performer)Composer not specified | 1949-00-00 | Bangwe, Bangwe wa m'kulu, East African, Indigenous music, Londoni,Egesi, Malawi, Nyasaland, Southern African, Topical song, Yao, Zither, ILAM | Topical song with Bangwe wa m'kulu zither. Further details refer ILAM shellac record number: TP1178
- 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. " At your home you give a person to the spirit Sikwembo. But at my house we only give a chicken to Sikwembo. Then we kill a second chicken and cook sadza porridge so that the spirit's fowl may come and eat both the sadza and the cooked fowl." The song refers to an argument between a man and wife and the diviner through whom the spirit is approached.Details from ILAM record number TP4274-H1P16
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