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Title Audio Collection Description Composersort icon Date All terms
Haha Mwelende |

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ILAM

Further details refer to ILAM filed card number XYZ6019

Composer not specified
Alima Binti Feluze (Performer)

 1920-04-01 Alima Binti Feluze | Clapping | Daressalaam | East African | Ganda | Ganda | ILAM | Indigenous music | Kampala | Party song | Tanganyika | Tanzania | Uganda | West African
Untitled |

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ILAM

Further details refer to ILAM CD number: BC57.

Composer not specified
Kipsigi Girls (Performer)

 1900-01-00 Guitar | ILAM | Indigenous music | Kenya | Kipsigi | West African
Thembo |

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ILAM

Further details refer to ILAM CD number: BC41.

Composer not specified
Pygmies (Performer)

 1900-01-00 Belgian Congo | Congo | Democratic Republic of the Congo | ILAM | Indigenous music | Pygmies | Vocal | West African
Untitled |

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ILAM

Further details refer to ILAM CD number: BC41.

Composer not specified
Pygmies (Performer)

 1900-01-00 Belgian Congo | Congo | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Flute | ILAM | Indigenous music | Pygmies | West African
Gatanga mea Kpiono ya geduele | Central African

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ILAM

Slit drum , 3 conical cross laced, double headed Drums, Wooden clappers. Further details refer to ILAM record number XYZ7609

Composer not specified
Zande men and women

 1952-08-31 Bandiya | Belgian Congo | Buta | Central African | Congo | conical cross laced Drum | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Double headed drum | Drum | ILAM | Indigenous music | Nguru | North Congo | slit Drum | West African | Wooden clappers | Zaire | Zande | Zande
Pepeiye Orogbandudu | West African

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ILAM

Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR0744

Congo Abana Band (Performer)
Piccolo Pete (Performer)
Composer not specified

 1958-00-00 Benin | Congo Abana Band | Guitar | ILAM | Nigeria | Piccolo | Piccolo Pete | Popular music | Togo | Vocal | West African | Yoruba
Pepeiye Orogbandudu | West African

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ILAM

Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR0744

Congo Abana Band (Performer)
Piccolo Pete (Performer)
Composer not specified

 1958-00-00 Benin | Congo Abana Band | Guitar | ILAM | Nigeria | Piccolo | Piccolo Pete | Popular music | Togo | Vocal | West African | Yoruba
Pakushila muka mumola wenda seneme |

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ILAM

"When you dance with a friend's girl you are afraid". Further details refer to ILAM field card (C3T).

Eduard Bwalga (Performer)

 1949-08-01 Bemba | Bemba | Bwalya,Edward | Cylindrical Drum | Double-headed drum laced | ILAM | Kitwe Town Compound | Northern Rhodesia | West African | Zimbabwe
Lekeni ukwimba ninshi twaleka |

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ILAM

Dance song. Drinking song. "If you stop singing, we stop singing". Further details refer to ILAM field card (C3T)

Eduard Bwalga (Performer)

 1949-08-01 Bemba | Bemba | Bwalya,Edward | Cylindrical Drum | Double-headed drum laced | ILAM | Kitwe Town Compound | Northern Rhodesia | West African | Zimbabwe
Musahowelele likishi la Mukena |

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ILAM

Folk music. Dance song performed for men. Further details refer to ILAM field card (C3X)

Elizabeth Kabuku (Performer)

 1949-08-05 Elizabeth Kabuku | ILAM | Lozi | Lozi | Nkana Mine | Northern Rhodesia | West African | Wusakili Compound | Xylophone | Zimbabwe
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