South African Music Archive Project
Nyasaland
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- Composer: Chewa girls (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950/05/22 | Chewa, Chewa, Dance song, Drum, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kasungu, Malawi, Mcoma dance, Nyanja, Nyasaland, Southern African, Whistle, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: DX 10
- Composer: Nancy Luhana (Performer)Mwenele Kaunda (Performer) | 1950/05/31 | Folk music, Henga, Indigenous music, Kaunda,Mwenela, Luhana,Nancy, Malawi, mortar, Mzimba, Nyasaland, pestle, Pounding song, Southern African, Tumbuka, ILAM | Pounding song with mortar and pestles. Further details refer ILAM field card (D2G12)Translated English title - "My husbands people are difficult." Further details refer ILAM field card (C4A12)
- Composer: Nancy Luhoma (Performer)Mwenela Kaunda (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950/05/31 | East African, Folk music, Henga, Indigenous music, Kaunda,Mwenela, Luhana,Nancy, Malawi, mortar, Mzimba, Nyasaland, pestle, Pounding song, Southern African, Tumbuka, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: D2G 12
- Artist(s): Nancy Luhama (Performer)Mwenela Kaunda (Performer)Young girls (Performer)Dandy Boys (Performer) | Composer: Nancy Luhama (Performer)Mwenela Kaunda (Performer)Dandy Boys (Performer) | 1950-00-00 | Call and response, Dandy Boys, Heya, Kaunda,Mwenela, Luhana,Nancy, Malawi, Mortar and pestle, Nyasaland, singing, Song, Southern African, traditional, Tumbuka, Young girls, ILAM | Traditional song performed by young girls, accompanied by beats on the mortar and pestle. ILAM field card is unknown
- Artist(s): Tumbuka girls (Performer) | Composer: Taines Chirwa (Performer)Mwenele Kaunda (Performer)Nancy Luhana (Performer) | 1950/05/31 | Chirwa,Taines, Folk music, Henga, Indigenous music, Kaunda,Mwenela, Luhana,Nancy, Malawi, mortar, Mzimba, Nyasaland, pestle, Pounding song, Southern African, Tumbuka, Tumbuka, ILAM | Pounding song with mortar and pestles. Further details refer ILAM field card (D2G11)
- Composer: Nyanja Boys (Performer) | 1905/05/05 | East African, Guitar, Malawi, Nyanja, Nyanja, Nyasaland, Popular music, Rattle, Vocal, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR1216
- Composer: Boys at Blantyre Secondary School (Performer) | 1949/09/16 | Blantyre Secondary School, Bones, Guitar, Malawi, Nyanja, Nyasaland, rattles, Southern African, ILAM | Guitar, Rattles, 2 bones. Concert Song. Further details refer ILAM card no C5N9
- Artist(s): Boys at Blantyre Secondary School (Performer) | Composer: Boys at Blantyre Secondary School (Performer) | 1949/09/16 | Blantyre Secondary School, Bone rattles, Concert, East African, Guitar, Indigenous music, Malawi, Nyanja, Nyasaland, Song, Southern African, ILAM | Concert song accompanied by guitar and bone rattles. The song is also known as A Biti Njalo si Aleke Kulila. Refer ILAM field card C5N9
- Composer: Boys at Blantyre Secondary School (Performer)Composer not specified | 1949/09/16 | Blantyre Secondary School, Bone, Concert song, East African, Guitar, Malawi, Nyanja, Nyasaland, Rattle, Southern African, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: C5N-9
- Composer: Ganizani Nyirenda (Performer) | 1950/05/22 | Chewa, Indigenous music, Kalimba, Kasungu, Malawi, Mbira, Nyanja, Nyasaland, Nyirenda,Ganizani, Southern African, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number DX5
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