South African Music Archive Project
Kenya
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- Composer: Kanyense Muange (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950/09/26 | East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kamba, Kanyense Muange, Kenya, Machakos, Praise chant, Praise song, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: D6W-6
- Composer: Kyule wa Kala | 1950/09/26 | chant, East African, Kamba, Kenya, Kyule wa Kala, prose, Song, ILAM | Chanted proseRefer ILAM field card D6W4
- Composer: Kyule wa Kala (Performer)Kyule wa Kala (Composer) | 1950/09/26 | chant, Chanted prose, East African, Indigenous music, Kamba, Kenya, Kyule wa Kala, Machakos, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: D6W-4
- Composer: Mbewa Kieti | 1950/09/25 | East African, historical, Kamba, Kenya, legend, Mbewa Kieti, oral, recitative, Song, ILAM | Recitative based on a legendRefer ILAM field card D6V11
- Composer: Mbewa Kieti | 1950/09/25 | East African, historical, Kamba, Kenya, legend, Mbewa Kieti, oral, recitative, Song, ILAM | Recitative based on a legendRefer ILAM field card D6V11a
- Artist(s): Shinda Kamwana (Performer) | Composer: C. Kauwana (Composer) | 1952/05/25 | Accordion, C. Kauwana, Central African, East African, Kauwana,C., Kenya, Kikuya, Mombasa, Shinda Kamwana, Struck iron, ILAM | Mwamboko dance song. Further details refer to ILAM field card F3C
- 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): Meru men and women | Composer: Melany Mewarali (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | Chaga, East African, Indigenous music, Kapsabet, Kenya, Melany Mewarali, Meru, Meru, Spell, Spell-breaking song, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number: CR2564.
- Artist(s): Wanga men (Performer) | Composer: Charles Wanga (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950/09/11 | Clapping, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kenya, Lament, Luyia, Nyanza, Tsindeche leg bells, Wanga, Wanga, Wanga,Charles, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: D6H-11
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