South African Music Archive Project
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- Composer: Josiasi Yemba Mate (Performer and Composer)Josiasi Yemba Mate (Performer)Josiasi Yemba Mate (Composer) | 1952/02/21 | Barotseland, Folk music, Indigenous music, Josiasi Yemba Mate, Kathandi mbira, Luanika, Mbira, Mbunda, Mongu, Northern Rhodesia, Southern African, topical, Topical song, Zambia, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: F2B 8Translated English title - "Do not push me around. I do not like to make trouble." Further details refer ILAM field card number: F2B 8
- Artist(s): Beti Kamanga (Performer) | Composer: Beti Kamanga (Performer) | 1950-00-00 | Bangwe zithe, Kamanga,Beti, Malawi, Man singing, Nyasaland, singing, Song, Southern African, Tonga, topical, traditional, ILAM | Topical song accompanied on the Bangwe zither. ILAM field card is unknown
- Composer: Josiasi Yemba Mate | 1952/02/21 | Josiasi Yemba Mate, Kathandi, masks, Mbira, Mbunda, Northern Rhodesia, resonato, Song, Southern African, topical, Zambia, ILAM | Topical song about the importance of masks. It is accompanied by 14 Kathandi Mbira with external resonators. Refer ILAM field card F2B7
- Artist(s): Luba men | Composer: Kankolongo Alidor (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952/02/10 | Belgian Congo, Central African, Chisanzhi mbira, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kankolongo,Alidor, Luba, Luba, Southern Congo, topical, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: F1Y 7
- 1950-00-00 | Call and response, Clapping, Drum, East African, Haya, Male singing, Nyoro, Song, Tanganyika, Tanzania, topical, Tradition, ILAM | Topical song performed by men who are accompanied by clapping and drum beats. ILAM field card number is unknown
- Artist(s): Teacher Training School (Performer) | Composer: Teacher Training School (Performer) | 1951/06/06 | Burn, Call and response, Letter, men and women, Ndau, Part singing, Song, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Teachers' Training College, topical, Worry, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Topical song in which someone informs his friend he will burn a letter and asks him not to worry. ILAM field card number is unknown
- Composer: Josiah Nkomo (Performer and Composer)Josiah Nkomo (Performer)Josiah Nkomo (Composer) | 1952/02/21 | Bulawayo, Folk music, Guitar, Josiah Nkomo, Ndebele, Nkomo,J., Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, topical, Topical song, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: F2B 9
- Artist(s): Boogie Woogie Songsters (Performer) | Composer: Boogie Woogie Songsters (Performer) | 1951-00-00 | Boogie Woogie Songsters, Dance-like, Guitar, Ndebele, Part-singing, Popular, Song, South Africa, Southern African, topical, Zulu, ILAM | Dance-like topical song accompanied by string instruments. ILAM field card number is unknown
- Artist(s): Leader Feliciano Gomez (Composer/Performer)Unidentified others (Performer) | Composer: Leader Feliciano Gomez (Composer/Performer)Unidentified others (Performer) | 1950/11/01 | Chopi, Gomez,Feliciano Muntano, Guitar, Male lead singer, Mozambique, Popular, Portuguese East Africa, Song, Southern African, topical, Women chorus, ILAM | Song performed by a lead singer and a chorus, with the accompaniment of guitars. Refer ILAM field card number D8G5
- Composer: Masudi bini AmariNyamwezi men and women | 1950/07/18 | conical, Drum, East African, Masudi bini Amari, Nyamwezi, Nyamwezi, Song, Tanganyika, Tanzania, topical, ILAM | Song congratulates chief for stopping theftRefer ILAM field card D4C10
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