South African Music Archive Project
Tonga
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- Artist(s): Tonga people (Performer) | Composer: Mwale, M. (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | East African, Humorous, Indigenous music, Karigo, Lute, Malawi, Mwale,Maluba, Nyasaland, Song, Southern African, Tonga, Tonga, ILAM | Humorous song with Karigo lute - one-string, bowed. Further details refer ILAM shellac record number: TP1485
- Artist(s): Tonga people (Performer) | Composer: Mwale, M. (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | Drinking song, East African, Indigenous music, Karigo, Lute, Malawi, Mwale,Maluba, Nyasaland, Southern African, Tonga, Tonga, ILAM | Drinking song with Karigo lute - one-string, bowed. Further details refer ILAM shellac record number: TP1475
- 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 | Dance music for Chingande dance
- Artist(s): Tonga Men (Performer) | Composer: Maluba Mwale (Performer and Composer) | 1950/05/29 | 1-string lute, Drinking song, East African, Indigenous music, Kariego, Malawi, Mwale,Maluba, Nyasaland, Southern African, Tonga, Tonga, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number D2E 21
- Composer: Tonga Boy (Performer) | 1949/09/16 | Folk song, Indigenous music, Malawi, Nyasaland, Southern African, Tonga, Tonga, ILAM | Story Song. Further details refer ILAM card no C5N10
- 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 - "I sing with my husband." Further details refer ILAM field card (D2E6b).
- 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, Song for the married couple, Southern African, Tonga, Tonga, wedding, ILAM | Song performed when escorting the bride to the husband's house. The song is accompanied by drums. ILAM field card number is D2E6
- Composer: Group of Tonga men and women (Performer) | 1949/06/14 | Dance music, Drum, Giguni, Guiguni, Indigenous music, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Shake, Southern African, Tonga, Tonga, ILAM | Folk music for dance with drums and shakersFurther details refer ILAM field card (CX2)
- Composer: Tonga men and women (Performer)Composer not specified | 1949/06/14 | Clapping, Dance song, Drum, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Shaking, Southern African, Tonga, Tonga, Zore dance, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: CX-2
- Artist(s): Tonga men (Performer) | Composer: Mutika Chirwa (Performer)George Phiri (Composer) | 1949/08/11 | Chirwa,Mutika, Christmas song, Henga, Malawi, New Year's song, Nyasaland, Phiri,George, Southern African, Tonga, Tonga, Tumbuka, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Translated English title - "Look, look, the stars are shining." Further information refer ILAM field card number: C4D-15
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