South African Music Archive Project
Southern Congo
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- Artist(s): Kasai women (Performer) | Composer: Eresina (Performer) | 1952/01/13 | Central African, Clapping, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Drinking song, Eresina, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kasai, Kasai, Luba, Southern Congo, ILAM | Drinking song with clapping. Translated English title - "Don't be afrid of an angry face." Further details refer ILAM field card (F1E1)
- Composer: Kalonji Marcel (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952/01/29 | Central African, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kabinda, Likembe, Luba, Marcel,Kalouji, Mbira, Republic of the Congo, Southern Congo, Topical song, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: F1P 9
- 1960-08-00 | Central African, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Instrumental, Likembe, Luba, Mbira, Southern Congo, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record no. AC1332.
- Artist(s): Chokwe women | Composer: Mulazhi Ronger (Performer) | 1952/02/02 | Central African, Chokwe, Chokwe, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Folk music, Mulazhi Ronger, Sandoa, Southern Congo, ILAM | Humorous song
- Artist(s): Chokwe women (Performer) | Composer: Mulaji Ronger (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952/02/02 | Bamboo reed, Central African, Chokwe, Chokwe, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Folk music, Humorous, Indigenous music, Kisazhi mbira, Mulaji Ronger, Republic of the Congo, Sandoa, Song, Southern Congo, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: F1S 2
- 1960-08-00 | Central African, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guitar, Mwenda, Song, Southern Congo, ILAM | Song with guitar. Further details refer ILAM record number AC1332
- 1960-08-00 | Central African, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gourd, Luba, Singing Gourd, Southern Congo, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record no. AC1332.
- Artist(s): Three Drummers (Performer) | Composer: Luba women (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952/01/30 | Central African, Congo, Dance song, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Drum, Folk music, Funeral Song, Indigenous music, Kasai, Luba, Luba, Republic of the Congo, Southern Congo, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: F1Q 2
- Composer: Mulembambwe (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952/01/29 | banjo, Bottle, Central African, Congo, Dance music, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Elizabethville, Kipushi, Mulembambwe, Republic of the Congo, Rumba, Southern Congo, Swahili, Three Guitar, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number FIP- 6
- Artist(s): Chibanda and Kasena with 7 Kanyoka men | 1957/07/28 | Basket rattle, Bottle, Folk - Central African, Guitar, Kanyoka, Northern Rhodesia, Southern Congo, ILAM | Topical song with 2 guitars, 3 basket rattles and 1 bottle. Chibanda and Kasena with 7 Kanyoka men. Territory Mwene Ditu, District Kabinda, Kasai, Belgian Congo. Recorded in rural Panda-Jadotville, Belgian Congo., "The Kanyoka captured the Chief of the Kasai people on the other side of the river, cut off his head, put it in a pot of beer and drank the beer.", It is not certain from the context to which tribal wars this incident refers, if any. It may well be a form of boasting or braggadocio.
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