South African Music Archive Project
Tonga
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- Composer: Nyembane dancers | 1955/03/06 | Corrugated iron, Dance song, Drum, Folk music, Indigenous music, Mozambique, Nyembane, Nyembane, Portuguese East Africa, South Africa, Southern African, Tonga, Transvaal, Zore, ILAM | Zore dance song accompanied by various types of drums and beating with sticks on corrugated iron. Refer ILAM field card H1H12
- Artist(s): Tonga boys | Composer: Edwadi Nyanga (Performer) | 1949/08/23 | Drum, Edwadi Nyanga, Folk song, Lusaka, Nothern Rhodesia, Southern African, Tonga, Tonga, Zambia, ILAM | Drinking song
- Composer: Kamanga, B. (Composer/Performer)Beti Kamanga (Composer/Performer) | 1950/05/29 | Bangwe, Chinteche, Kamanga,Beti, Lament, Malawi, Nyasaland, Raft zither, Southern African, Tonga, Zither, ILAM | Lament with Bangwe zither. Translated English title - "We remember the Vifya' . Further details refer ILAM field card (D2E24)
- Composer: Beti Kamanga (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | Bangwe, East African, Indigenous music, Kamanga,Beti, Lament, Malawi, Nyasaland, Southern African, Tonga, Zither, ILAM | Lament for disaster with Bangwe zither. Further details refer ILAM shellac record number: TP1478
- Composer: Beti Kamanga (Performer and Composer) | 1950/05/29 | Bangwe, Bangwe raft zither, East African, Indigenous music, Kamanga,Beti, Malawi, Nyasaland, Raft zither, Southern African, Strings, Tonga, ILAM | Chioda dance song for women. Further details refer ILAM field card number D2E 24
- 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. " At your home you give a person to the spirit Sikwembo. But at my house we only give a chicken to Sikwembo. Then we kill a second chicken and cook sadza porridge so that the spirit's fowl may come and eat both the sadza and the cooked fowl." The song refers to an argument between a man and wife and the diviner through whom the spirit is approached.Details from ILAM record number TP4274-H1P16
- Artist(s): Shangaan men | Composer: Paulo Matawele (Performer) | 1949/05/27 | Bila, Chipendani, Incomati, Mozambique, Paulo Matawele, Portugese East Africa, Shangaan, Southern African, Tonga, Xinavane, ILAM | Love SongFurther details refer ILAM field card (CF4)
- Artist(s): Tonga men (Performer) | Composer: Chirwa, M. (Performer)Mutika Chirwa (Performer) | 1949/08/11 | Chirwa,Mutika, Dance music, Folk music, Indigenous music, Luanshya, Muwuso song, Northern Rhodesia, Southern African, Tonga, Tonga, Zambia, ILAM | Muwuso song for Malipenga dance with Tonga men. Further details refer ILAM field card (C4D14)
- Composer: Situta SumbaneSalimu Magoda | 1949/05/23 | 7 note scale, Bila, Desa gourd, Marimba, Mbira, Mozambique, Ndau, Portuguese East Africa, Salimu Magoda, Situta Sumbane, Song, Southern African, Tonga, ILAM | Song accompanied by mbira, marimba and Desa gourd resonatorUses Ndau seven note scaleRefer ILAM field card CB9
- Composer: Group of men at Mapanza (Performer) | 1948/05/07 | Folk song, Mapanza, Mapanza, Northern Rhodesia, Praise song, Southern African, Tonga, Zambia, ILAM | Folk music praise song for soldiers.Further details refer ILAM field card (AX22)
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