South African Music Archive Project
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- Composer: Newcastle Humming Bees (Performer)Composer not specified | KwaZulu-Natal, Natal, Newcastle Humming Bees, South Africa, Southern African, Topical song, Unaccompanied, Zulu, Zululand, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record number: TP3570
- Composer: Dundee Wandering Singers (Performer)Composer not specified | Dundee Wandering Singers, KwaZulu-Natal, Natal, South Africa, Southern African, Topical song, Unaccompanied, Zulu, Zululand, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record number: TP3569
- Composer: Mudumu (Performer)Babu (Performer)Composer not specified | Babu, Indigenous music, Karanga, Mbira, Mudumu, Njari, Shona, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Topical song, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record number TP3718
- Artist(s): Babu (Performer) | Composer: Mudumu (Performer)Zakaua (Performer) | Babu, Indigenous music, Karanga, Mbira, Mudumu, Njari, Shona, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Topical song, Zakaua, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record number TP3717
- Artist(s): Marguerite Liaze (Leader) | Composer: Societe Liaza (Performer)Marguerite Liaze (Composer) | Aketi, Bass Drum, Belgian Congo, Central African, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Indigenous music, Marguerite Liaze, Ngala, Party song, Republic of the Congo, Societe Liaza, ILAM | Translated English title - "we have come but the others have stayed behind." Further details refer ILAM field card number: F4T 11
- Artist(s): Two other players | Composer: Composer not specified Nakule (Performer) | Bandiya, Buta, Chief Gatanga, Folk - Central African, Kponingbo xylophone, Nakule, Nguru, Northern Congo, Zande, Zande dance, ILAM | A Zande dance with Kponingbo xylophone (log zylophone with keys on banana stems. The tuning corresponds in absolute pitch with that of harp strings). "We live here in the district of Bandiya." These loose note xylophones are played by three and sometimes four men sitting on either side of the instrument. The Zande dance is performed in a circle to the cheerful sound of the xylophone. All the dancers move in unison with small steps in a set pattern which ensures that the circle moves around gradually in an anti-clockwise direction. A characteristic gesture by Zande dancers is the holding out of hands, palms upwards, gently raising and lowering the forearms in time with the music.
- Artist(s): Two other players, with dancers | Composer: Composer not specified Nakule (Performer) | Bandiya, Chief Gatanga, Folk - Central African, Kponingbo xylophone, Nakule, Nguru, Northern Congo, Zande, ILAM | A Zande dance with Kponingbo xylophone (log zylophone with keys on banana stems. The tuning corresponds in absolute pitch with that of harp strings). "Sungi kumba wa sa gasi li Sungi akumba ai gibolo. It is a bad housewife who does not work for a husband. A woman who can't work is no good at all." These loose note xylophones are played by three and sometimes four men sitting on either side of the instrument. The Zande dance is performed in a circle to the cheerful sound of the xylophone. All the dancers move in unison with small steps in a set pattern which ensures that the circle moves around gradually in an anti-clockwise direction. A characteristic gesture by Zande dancers is the holding out of hands, palms upwards, gently raising and lowering the forearms in time with the music.
- Artist(s): Two other players | Composer: Composer not specifiedNakule Nguba (Performer) | Akpaningbo, Bandiya, Buta, Chief Gatanga, Folk - Central African, Kponingbo xylophone, Nakule, Nguru, Northern Congo, Zande, ILAM | Dance in honour of the ancestors with Kponingbo or Akpaningbo, nine loose-note zylophone. (log zylophone with keys on banana stems. The tuning corresponds in absolute pitch with that of harp strings) "Kondo natipala bako, Gatanga natipala bako, Mongo natipala nako" " The father of Kondo, The father of Gatanga, The mother of Mongo.", The tuning of the loose note xylophone is 664, 568,496, 392, 360, 332, 284, 248, 196 vs.
- Composer: Zande men (Performer) | Bandiya, Bugu, Buta, Chief Gatanga, Folk - Central African, Gaza, Gugu, Ndimo, Nguru, Northern Congo, Zande, Zande, ILAM | "Song of the drum". Dance song. Large wooden slit drum with feet, 3 conical drums, cross laced and double headed, metal hand bells. The conical drums were all called either Gaza or Ndimo. The slit drum is Gugu or Bugu. The beaters of the conical drums are called Luiringwa Gaza. The method of playing the slit drum is unusual, as the player sits astride his drum and may even rest one leg along its length. The small ebony carvings from this district demonstrate this stance.
- Composer: Composer ( not specified)Muyapala Kpeli (Performer) | 5 strings metal hand bells, Andzolo, Bandiya, Belgian Congo, Buta, Central African, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Indigenous music, Kundi, Muyapala Kpeli, Nguru, North Congo, Vertical harp, Zaire, Zande, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number XYZ7611
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