South African Music Archive Project
Tonga
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- Artist(s): Tonga Men (Performer) | Composer: Maluba Mwale (Performer and Composer) | 1950/05/29 | 1-string lute, bowed, East African, Indigenous music, Kariego, Lament song, Malawi, Mwale,Maluba, Nyasaland, Southern African, Tonga, Tonga, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number D2E 29
- Artist(s): Tonga boys (Performer) | Composer: Nyirenda, A. (Performer)Alfred Nyirenda (Performer) | 1950/05/29 | Chinteche, Folk music, Indigenous music, Malawi, Nkata Bay, Nyasaland, Nyirenda,Alfred, Southern African, Tonga, Tonga, Topical song, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Topical song with young Tonga boys. Further details refer ILAM field card (D2E12 / D2E11)
- Artist(s): Tonga boys (Performer) | Composer: Alfred Nyirenda (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950/05/29 | East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Malawi, Nyasaland, Nyirenda,Alfred, Southern African, Tonga, Tonga, Topical song, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: D2E-11
- Composer: Tonga men (Performer) | 1949/06/12 | Dance music, Guitar, Inhambane, Maxixe, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Southern African, Tonga, Tonga, Town dance, ILAM | Town dance song with guitar accompanimentFurther details refer ILAM field card (CV3)
- 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: 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: 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
- Composer: Tonga men and women (Performer)Composer not specified | 1949/06/14 | Clapping, Dance song, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Southern African, Tonga, Tonga, Zore dance, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: CX-1
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