South African Music Archive Project
Kikuyu
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- Artist(s): Kikuyu Girls | Composer: Tabitha Wairimu (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | Dance song, East African, Indigenous music, Kenya, Kikuyu, Kikuyu, Nairobi, Wairimu,Tabitha, ILAM | Alliance High School. Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR2388.
- Artist(s): Kikuyu Girls | Composer: Jabitha wairimu (Performer) | 1950/09/23 | Dance song, East African, Fort Hall, Jabitha wairimu, Kenya, Kikuyu, Kikuyu, ILAM | Folk SongMucungwa dance song for men and womenFurther details refer ILAM field card (D6T8)
- Artist(s): Tabitha Wairimu with Kikyuyu girls | 1950/09/23 | Dance song, East African, Folk music, Forest Hall district, Indigenous music, Kenya, Kikuyu, Kikuyu, Wairimu,Tabitha, ILAM | A very simple dance song, sung in unison.Further details refer ILAM field card number: D6T 8
- Artist(s): Kikuyu boys (Performer) | Composer: Kang' ethe Nduati (Performer) | 1950/09/23 | Dance song, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kang' ethe Nduati, Kenya, Kigamba leg rattle, Kikuyu, Kikuyu, Leg rattle, Nairobi, ILAM | Muthuu dance song. Further details refer ILAM fieldcard D6T1.
- Artist(s): Kikuyu boys | Composer: Kang'ethe Nduati (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | Dance song, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kang' ethe Nduati, Kiigamba Rattle, Kikuyu, Kikuyu, Muthuu Dance song, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number: CR3613.
- Artist(s): Chinda Kamwana (Performer) | 1952/05/24 | Accordion, Chinda Kamwana, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kenya, Kiamuthambi, Kikuyu, Kikuyu territory, Struck iron, Topical song, ILAM | A topical song with accordian and struck iron. The accordian is used as a ground which creates a happy noise but has little, if any, melodic or harmonic relationship to the tonality or mode of the voice.Song to accompany a town dance in which men and women dance together in pairs, after the fashion of Europeans.Further details refer ILAM field card number: F3B 6
- Composer: Kadhari wa Marere (Performer) | 1952/05/25 | Accordion, Dance song, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kadhari wa Marere, Kenya, Kikuyu, Mombasa, Struck iron, ILAM | Mwomboro dance music. Further details refer ILAM fieldcard F3C-14.
- Artist(s): Kikuyu boys (Performer) | Composer: Kariuki Ndenderu (Performer) | 1950/09/23 | East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kariuki Ndenderu, Kenya, Kikuyu, Kikuyu, Nairobi, Story Song, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM fieldcard D6T2.
- Artist(s): Kikuyu Boys | Composer: Kariuki Ndenderu (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | East African, Indigenous music, Kariuki Ndenderu, Kenya, Kikuyu, Kikuyu, Nairobi, Story songs, ILAM | Alliance High School. Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR2384.
- Artist(s): Kikuyu Girls (Performer) | Composer: Wangari wa Gibson (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950/09/23 | Dance song, East African, Folk song, Indigenous music, Kenya, Kikuyu, Kikuyu, Wangari wa Gibson, ILAM | Dance Song for boys and girls. Further details refer ILAM record field number XYZ5550a
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