South African Music Archive Project
Traditional music
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- Artist(s): Nourse Mines Basutos (Performer) | Composer: Nourse Mines Basutos | 1900-01-00 | Chorus, Folk music, Girlfriend, Indigenous music, Nourse Mines Basutos, praise, Ramakhobotlo, recitative, Song, Sotho, South Africa, Southern African, Traditional music, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Praise song for a girlfriend, sung in recitative style
- Artist(s): Shangaan Choir (Performer) | Composer: Shangaan Choir | 1900-01-00 | Indigenous music, Men singing, Oral poetry, Shangaan, Shangaan, South Africa, South African, Spoken verse, Traditional music, ILAM | Spoken verse performed by a man.
- Artist(s): Constance Magogo Uzulu ka-Dinuzulu (Performer)Mnayamana, Chief Buthelezi's grandfather (Composer) | Composer: Constance Magogo Uzulu ka-Dinuzulu | 1955/01/27 | bow, Chordophone, Constance Magogo Uzulu ka-Dinuzulu, Folk music, Historic song, Indigenous music, Mnayamana - Chief Buthelezi's grandfather, Single string, South Africa, Southern African, Traditional music, Ugubu, Unbraced, Zulu, ILAM | Traditional Zulu song accompanied by the musical bow. The translated title is "The bone of the snake'. Further details refer ILAM field card number H1D6
- Artist(s): Seli's nephews (Performer) | Composer: Seli's nephews | 1900-01-00 | Chinyanja, concertina, dance, Guitar, Malawi, Men singing, Popular music, Seli's nephews, Song, Southern African, Traditional music, ILAM | Popular dance song accompanied by the guitar and concertina.Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR1007
- Artist(s): Men and women of the Shembe Church (Performer) | Composer: Men and women of the Shembe Church | 1955/01/24 | Christianity, Hymn, religious, Shembe, Shembe Church Choir, South Africa, Southern African, Traditional music, Unaccompanied, Zulu, Zulu, ILAM | Hymn of the Shembe Church. Further details refer ILAM field card number H1C1
- Artist(s): Men and women of the Shembe Church (Performer) | Composer: Men and women of the Shembe Church | 1955/01/24 | Folk music, Indigenous music, Shembe, Shembe Church Choir, South Africa, Southern African, Traditional music, Unaccompanied, Zulu, ILAM | Hymn of the Shembe Church. Further details refer ILAM field card number H1C4
- Artist(s): Alric Farrell (Leader) | Composer: The Merry Makers Steel Orchestra (Performer) | 1900-01-00 | Calypso, Caribbean, Creole, dance, Farrell,Alric, Gender, Instrumental, Iron bell, Maracas, Merry Makers Steel Orchestra, Popular music, Traditional music, Trinidad, ILAM | Calypso dance performed on various instruments.Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR1004
- Artist(s): Sephoto Mokoena (Performer) | Composer: Sephoto Mokoena | 1965-00-00 | concertina, Folk music, Indigenous music, Lesotho, Mokoena,Sephota, Popular music, Song, Sotho, South Africa, Southern African, Traditional music, ILAM | Song accompanied on the concertina
- Artist(s): John Cosmos Owade (Leader) | Composer: Bondo Choir of Luo girls (Performer) | 1950/09/08 | Bondo, Choral music, Dho, East African, John Cosmos Owade, Kenya, Kisumu, Luo, Topical song, Traditional music, ILAM | Traditional topical song. Further details refer ILAM field card (D6E14)
- Artist(s): Arthur de Coteau (Leader)The Casablanca Steel Orchestra (Performer) | Composer: Arthur de CoteauThe Casablanca Steel Orchestra | 1900-01-00 | Calypso, Caribbean, Casablanca Steel Orchestra, Creole, dance, de Coteau,Arthur, Iron bell, Popular music, Steel pans, Traditional music, Trinidad, ILAM | Calypso dance performed on various instruments.Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR1006
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