South African Music Archive Project
Vocal
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- Composer: Konde Kouyate(Performer)Diemori Kouyate (Composer)Composer not specified | 1905/05/03 | Diemori Kouyate, French Guinea, Guinea, Guitar, Indigenous music, Konde Kouyate, Malinke, Republic of Guinea, Vocal, West African, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR1070
- Composer: Performer not specifiedHugh Tracey (Composer) | 1933-00-00 | Bikila, Indigenous music, Rattle, South Rhodesia, Southern African, Tracey, Hugh, Vocal, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM reel number: A69.
- Composer: Ntondwe Brothers (Performer)Composer not specified | 1923-00-00 | East African, Guitar, Malawi, Ntondwe Brothers, Nyanja, Nyasaland, Popular music, Southern African, Vocal, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR0980
- Composer: Uladi Kachoka (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | East African, Indigenous music, Kachoka,Uladi, Ndola, Northern Rhodesia, Rattle, Vocal, Yao, Zambia, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR3565.
- Composer: Uladi Kachoka (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | East African, Indigenous music, Kachoka,Uladi, Ndola, Northern Rhodesia, Rattle, Vocal, Yao, Zambia, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR3567.
- Composer: Mwenda Jean Bosco (Performer)Mwenda Jean Bosco (Composer) | 1905/05/05 | Central African, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guitar, Mwenda,Jean Bosco, Popular music, Swahili, Topical song, Vocal, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR1160
- Composer: R.L.D. Choir (Performer)Z. A. Chihota (Conductor)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | Chihota,Z.A., Chizezuru, East African, Indigenous music, R.L.D. Choir, Rattle, Vocal, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR3153.
- Artist(s): Cherwo Arap KorogoremBekyibei Arap Mosonick | 1950/09/15 | Bowl lyre, Chepkongo bowl lyre, Cheriro Arap, East African, Indigenous music, Kapkatet, Kenya, Kericho, Kipsigis, Kipsigis district, Korogorem, Mosonik, Bekyibei Arap, Praise song, Vocal, ILAM | Praise song with Chepkongo 6 string bowl lyre. The main theme of this song is affection for the Kipsigis country. He also asks 'why the whitemen should have taken over the country' which incidentally they themselves took from others in the past. He comes, he says, from the Sotik nearby. The name 'Chemirocha' is their pronunciation of 'Jimmy Rodgers' whose gramophone records were the first to be heard in the district. It is now synonomous for anything strange or new. Details from ILAM field card number: D6L 6
- Composer: Mushabatu Bakasa (Performer)Composer not specified | 1945-00-00 | Folk song, Indigenous music, Mbira, Mushabata Bakasa, Shona, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Vocal, Zezuru, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recording) number: CR0381
- Composer: Mushabatu Bakasa (Performer)Composer not specified | 1945-00-00 | Folk song, Indigenous music, Mbira, Mushabata Bakasa, Shona, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Vocal, Zezuru, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recording) number: CR0382
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