South African Music Archive Project
Portuguese East Africa
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- Composer: Simoni Zambezi Chirumba (Performer) | 1949/09/23 | Drinking song, Folk music, Indigenous music, Marimba, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Sena, Simoni Zambezi Chirumba, Southern African, Tete, Tonga, Xylophone, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card no. C5S10.
- Composer: Jacob Masango and Co (Performer)Composer not specified | 1951-00-00 | East African, Indigenous music, Jacob Masango, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Rattle, Shangaan, Southern African, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR2987.
- Composer: Tonga women and girls (Performer) | 1955/10/11 | Bilene, Clapping, Dance song, Drum, East African, Folk music, Hlanganu, Indigenous music, Macia, Masesa, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Rattle, Southern African, Tonga, Tonga, Whistle, ILAM | Dance song for Masesa dance with a rattle, clapping, drumming and whistle. Further details refer ILAM field card (H1R7)
- Composer: Tonga girls (Performer) | 1955/10/11 | Bilene, Clapping, Dance song, East African, Folk music, Hlanganu, Indigenous music, Macia, Masesa, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Southern African, Tonga, Tonga, Whistle, ILAM | Dance song for Masesa dance with clapping, drumming and whistle. Further details refer ILAM field card (H1R11)
- Artist(s): Girls from Macia village (Performer) | Composer: Girls from Macia village | 1955/10/11 | Clapping, dance, Folk music, Macia village, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Shangaan, Song, Southern African, Tonga, Traditional music, Two cylindrical oil can Drum, Whistles, ILAM | A Masesa dance song accompanied by whistles and pegged drums made of oil cans. The dancers wore skirts made of lala palm. Further details refer ILAM field card number H1R11
- Composer: Alberto Tentowani Mwamosi (Performer)Gabriel Maopana Bila (Performer)Alberto Tentowani Mwamosi (Composer) | 1957/01/10 | Bila,Gabriel Maopana, Chopi, East African, Gaza, Guitar, Lenge, Mozambique, Mwamosi,Alberto Tentowani, Popular music, Portuguese East Africa, Southern African, Topical song, Vocals, ILAM | Translated English title - "The Enticer." Further details refer ILAM field card number: L1A 2
- Artist(s): Muntano Gomez o Feliciano | 1955/08/10 | Chibuto district, East African, Gomez o Feliciano, Muntano, Guitar, Indigenous music, Mozambique, Ndau, Portuguese East Africa, Sul do Save Province, Topical song, ILAM | Topical song with guitar. Feliciano's pronunciation of Ndau words, they say, is like a child's speech. "Matsaire, you have finished all the people." Matsaire was killed in a certain village, and his ghost came back demanding recompense, under pain of death to all the village. Details from ILAM field card (H1P-10, 11 - 25).
- Composer: Nyembane dancers (Performer) | 1955/03/06 | 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. Refer ILAM field card H1H11
- Artist(s): Tswa men (Performer) | Composer: Josefu Manyisa (Performer)Composer not specified | 1949/06/12 | Dance song, East African, Folk music, Hlengwe, Indigenous music, Josefu Manyisa, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Semba, Southern African, Tswa, Tswa, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Semba dance music. Further details refer ILAM field card number: CV-2
- Composer: Chopi women at Zandamela | 1949/06/02 | Chopi, Chopi, Mozambique, party, Portuguese East Africa, Song, Southern African, Zandamela, ILAM | Song is about the mother of the chiefRefer ILAM field card CL8
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