South African Music Archive Project
Hlanganu
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- Composer: Fabiao Dingani Mashawa (Performer) | 1955/10/11 | Bileni, Fabiao Dingani Mashawa, Hlanganu, Mbira, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Self delectative, Southern African, Tonga, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card no. H1R8.
- Artist(s): Fabiao Dingani Mashawa | 1955/10/11 | Bileni district, Fabiao Dingani Mashawa, Hlanganu, Mbira, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Southern African, Sul do Save Province, Tonga, ILAM | Self delectative song with mbira dza WaNdau. The performer is one of the few Tonga people who have learnt to play the Ndau instrument, the mbira dza WaNdau, which has travelled southwards since the time of the Shangaan chief Ngungunyana for whom the Ndau fought as a subservient tribe during the latter half of the nineteenth century. Several of the fighting men stayed in the south and married Tsonga women and their children have used the paternal instrument, singing to it traditional songs.Further details refer ILAM field card no. H1R-8.
- Composer: Fabiao Dingani Mashawa (Performer) | 1955/10/11 | Bilene, East African, Fabiao Dingani Mashawa, Folk music, Hlanganu, Indigenous music, Macia, Mbira, Mbira dza WaNdau, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Self-delectative song, Southern African, Tonga, ILAM | Self-delectative song with Mbira dza Ndau. Translated English title - "Mother-in-law." Further details refer ILAM field card (H1R12)
- 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 | A certain girl liked coca-cola very much, but her brother who was looking after her was too fond of drinking beer to worry about giving her coca-cola.Details from ILAM record number TP4274-H1P6
- Composer: France Mabasso (Performer) | 1955/10/11 | Bilene, Clapping, Dance music, Folk music, France Mabasso, Hlanganu, Indigenous music, Makwaya, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Southern African, Tonga, ILAM | Makwaya dance song. Further details refer ILAM field card (H1R5)
- Composer: Party-goers (Performer) | 1955/10/11 | Bilene, Crowd, Hlanganu, Language, Macia, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Southern African, Speech, Tonga, ILAM | Crowd noises after Makwaya dance. Further details refer ILAM field card (H1R9b)
- Artist(s): Two elderly Tonga women (Performer) | Composer: Fabiao Dingani Mashawa (Performer) | 1955/10/11 | Bilene, East African, Fabiao Dingani Mashawa, Folk music, Hlanganu, Indigenous music, Macia, Mbira, Mbira dza WaNdau, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Self-delectative song, Southern African, Tonga, Tonga, ILAM | Self-delectative song with Mbira dza Ndau. Translated English title - "Beautiful." Further details refer ILAM field card (H1R12)
- 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. "If you have no child it is no good. Other women have children, they fill the village. There are many men here standing in the queues for going to Johannesburg. You, my wife, you do not want to eat porridge - you want rice. There is no rice here, because I am poor. Go to the rich where they can afford rice."So she went to a rich man to get her rice, but now she gets no clothes, no shoes, and at last, no food.Details from ILAM record number TP4274-H1P14
- Composer: Shiwiti Mbiza (Performer) | 1955/10/11 | Bilene, East African, Folk music, Hlanganu, Indigenous music, Macia, Mbira, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Self-delectative song, Shiwiti Mbiza, Southern African, Tonga, ILAM | Self-delectative song with Mbira. Further details refer ILAM field card (H1R14)
- Composer: Tonganyanga Orelio Kowano (Performer)r and Composer) | 1955/10/11 | East African, Guitar, Hlanganu, Macia, Mozambique, Portugese East Africa, Tonga, Tonganyanga Orelio Kowano, Topical song, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: H1R-16.
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