South African Music Archive Project
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- Composer: Composer not specifiedSheikh Hassan Bin Juma (Leader) | Arabic, Daressalaam, Drum, East African, Indigenous music, Sheikh Hassan Bin Juma, Tambourines, Tanzania, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR2536.
- Composer: Mohamedi A. Bwagajuga (Performer)Composer not specified | Bwagajuga,Mohamedi A., Daressalaam, East African, Guitar, Indigenous music, Love song, Swahili, Tanzania, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR2541.
- Artist(s): Ngoma Ya Udi | Composer: Ramadhani Fataki (Performer)Composer not specified | East African, Humorous, Indigenous music, Mandoline, Ngoma ya Udi, Ramadhani Fataki, Swahili, Tabora, Tambourines, Tanganyika, Tanzania, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR2541.
- Artist(s): Zaramo Men | Composer: M. Kawambwa (Performer)K. Kilakala (Performer)Composer not specified | Dance song, Daressalaam, Drum, East African, Indigenous music, Kawambwa,Mashaka, Kilaka,Kitamba, Tanzania, Zaramo, Zaramo, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR2546.
- Artist(s): Zaramo Men | Composer: M. Kawambwa (Performer)Composer not specified | Dance song, Daressalaam, Drum, East African, Indigenous music, Kawambwa,Mashaka, Tanzania, Zaramo, Zaramo, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR2546.
- Artist(s): Zaramo boys | Composer: Pembe Selemani (Performer)Composer not specified | Dance song, East African, Friction sticks, Indigenous music, Kapsabet, Kenya, Pembe Selemani, Pipe dance, Rattle, Viyanzi flute ensemble, Zaramo, Zaramo, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number: CR2551.
- Artist(s): Pembe Selemani and Zaramo men | Dar-es-Salaam, Folk - East African, Mbeta pipe dance, Selemani, Pembe, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Zaramo, ILAM | An Mbeta pipe dance with Viyanzi vertical flutes, 2 friction sticks, and tin rattles., "You are giving me a lot of trouble. Go and eat food prepared by my mother on a basket. You will find it better and different from food prepared on enamel plates which make your stomach bad.", The players start to play beginning with the pipe 3rd from the lowest. Each piper above them takes his rhythm from the next man below. If one fails to get started he holds up all the others above. The leader then comes along and gets his rhythm for him and his companions can then take up the rhythm until the treble player at last joins in., Set of 13 pipes. The tuning of this set was as follows:- 584, 320, 440, 392, 336, 292, giving a pentatonic scale. The total range was just over two octaves.
- Artist(s): Zaramo boys | Composer: Pembe Selemani (Performer)Composer not specified | Dance song, Daressalaam, East African, Fighting song, Indigenous music, Pembe Selemani, Pipe dance, Rattle, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Viyanzi flute ensemble, Zaramo, Zaramo, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number: CR2558.
- Composer: Tonga women and girls (Performer) | 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)
- Artist(s): Tonga girls and youths (Performer) | Composer: France Maborro (Performer) | Bilene, Clapping, Dance music, East African, Folk music, France Maborro, Hlanganu, Indigenous music, Macia, Makwaya, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Southern African, Tonga, Tonga, ILAM | Makwaya dance song with clapping. Further details refer ILAM field card (H1R6)
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