South African Music Archive Project
Tonga
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- Artist(s): Tonga girls (Performer) | Composer: Nyamangwe, L. (Performer)Lucy Nyamangwe (Performer) | 1950/05/29 | Drum, Folk music, Indigenous music, Malawi, Nkata Bay, Nyamangwe,Lucy, Nyasaland, Southern African, Tonga, Tonga, Wedding song, ILAM | Wedding song with Tonga girls and drums. Translated English title - "Banda, we have brought you your love." Further details refer ILAM field card (D2E6a).
- Artist(s): Lucy Nyamangwe (Performer)Tonga girls (Performer) | Composer: Lucy Nyamangwe (Performer)Tonga girls (Performer) | 1950/05/29 | Drum, Escorting, Folk, Malawi, Nyamangwe,Lucy, Nyasaland, Song, Southern African, Tonga, Tonga, wedding, ILAM | Wedding song performed when bride is taken to the house of the groom. Song starts with solo voice and is later joined by a group of singer. ILAM field card number is D2E6
- Artist(s): Tonga young women | Composer: Lucy Nyamangwe (Performer) | 1950/05/29 | Drum, Folk song, Malawi, Nkala Bay, Nyamangwe,Lucy, Nyasaland, Southern African, Tonga, Tonga, ILAM | Chioda dance song
- Artist(s): Lucy Nyamangwe (Performer)Tonga girls (Performer) | Composer: Lucy Nyamangwe (Performer)Tonga girls (Performer) | 1950/05/29 | Box, Chioda, dance, Drum, Malawi, Migrant, mines, Nyamangwe,Lucy, Nyasaland, rhythm, Song, Southern African, Tonga, Tonga, Young women, ILAM | Chioda dance song for young women. The subject deals with a father who has to leave home to work on the mines. The song is accompanied by drum rhythms beaten on a box. Refer ILAM field card number D2E15
- Composer: Tonga boys (Performer) | 1949/09/16 | Blantyre, Folk music, Indigenous music, Malawi, Nyasaland, Southern African, Story Song, Tonga, Tonga, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Story song, unaccompanied. Further details refer ILAM field card (C5N11)
- Artist(s): Tonga Men (Performer) | Composer: Maluba Mwale (Performer and Composer) | 1950/05/29 | 1-string lute, bowed, East African, Humorous, Indigenous music, Kariego, Malawi, Mwale,Maluba, Nyasaland, Southern African, Tonga, Tonga, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number D2E 20
- Artist(s): Tonga girls | Composer: Lucy Nyamangwe (Performer) | 1950/05/29 | Drum, Folk song, Malawi, Nkala Bay, Nyamangwe,Lucy, Nyasaland, Southern African, Tonga, Tonga, ILAM | Chioda dance song
- Artist(s): Tonga women (Performer) | Composer: Lucy Nyamagwe (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950/05/29 | Box, Cioda dance, Dance song, Drum, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Malawi, Nyamangwe,Lucy, Nyasaland, rhythm, Southern African, Tonga, Tonga, ILAM | Drum rythm beaten on box. Further details refer ILAM field card number: D2E-14
- Composer: Group of Tonga boys (Performer) | 1948/05/07 | Drinking song, Drum, Indigenous music, Mapanza, Northern Rhodesia, Southern African, Sticks, Tonga, Tonga, Zambia, ILAM | Folk music drinking song with drums and beating sticks.Further details refer ILAM field card (AX19)
- Artist(s): Tonga men | Composer: Maluba Mwale (Composer/Performer) | 1950/05/29 | Karingo, Malawi, Mwale,Maluba, Nkala Bay, Nyasaland, one string lute, Southern African, Tonga, Tonga, ILAM | Chioda dance song
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