South African Music Archive Project
Tonga
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- Composer: Shangaan women (Performer)Composer not specified | 1949/05/30 | Bila, Dance song, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Shangaan, Southern African, Tonga, Unaccompanied, Wedding song, ILAM | Translated English title - "Goodbye." Further details refer ILAM field card number: CI-4
- Composer: Fabiao Dingani Mashawa (Performer) | 1955/11/10 | 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. Further details refer ILAM field card (H1R13)
- Composer: Shangaan women (Performer)Composer not specified | 1949/05/29 | Bila, Dance song, Drum, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Masese, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Shangaan, Southern African, Tonga, ILAM | Masese dance music with drum. Further details refer ILAM field card number: CH-1
- Artist(s): Tonga men | Composer: Solomoni Mudenda (Performer) | 1949/08/20 | Lusaka, Mudenda,Solomoni, Nothern Rhodesia, Southern African, Sticks, Tonga, Tonga, Zambia, ILAM | Divination music
- Composer: Simoni Zambezi Chirumba (Performer) | 1949/09/21 | East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Mozambique, Msidzimu, Nsansi, Portuguese East Africa, Sena, Simoni Zambezi Chirumba, Song for the Spirits, Tete, Tonga, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card no. C5S8.
- 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: Kamanga, B. (Performer)Beti Kamanga (Performer) | 1950/05/29 | Bangwe, Chinteche, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kamanga,Beti, Malawi, Nkata Bay, Nyasaland, Raft zither, Southern African, Tonga, Topical song, Zither, ILAM | Topical song with Bangwe zither. Further details refer ILAM field card (D2E32)
- Composer: Beti Kamanga (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950/05/29 | Bangwe raft zither, East African, Folk song, Indigenous music, Kamanga,Beti, Malawi, Nyasaland, Southern African, Strings, Tonga, Topical song, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number D2E 32
- Artist(s): Muntano Gomez o Feliciano | 1955/10/08 | Chibuto district, Gomez o Feliciano, Muntano, Hlanganu, Lament, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Raft rattle, Southern African, Sul do Save Province, Tonga, ILAM | Lament with raft rattle. The rattle has seeds inside a hollow raft of stout grass stalks."They put poison in my beer and that is why I have nochild. I am very worried about the guitar. I do not like to meet anyone. I went to my doctor to make myself effective to get a child. I asked my uncle if he had seen the way I dance. Did the old people kill a man on account of his dancing - or does that only happen to me?"Details from ILAM field card H1P16
- Composer: Feliciaus Gomez (Composer)Muarano Gomez (Performer) | 1955/08/10 | East African, Gomez,Feliciano Muntano, Gomez,Muntano, Indigenous music, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Rattle, Tonga, Topical song, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number TP4274-H1P7
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