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Title Audio Collection Description Composer Date All terms
Anoma Oreko | West African

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ILAM

Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR0753

The Hot Shots (Performer)
Composer not specified

 1958-00-00 Band music | Buddy Squire | Drum | Ghana | Hot Shots | ILAM | Popular music | Saxophone | Stick | Twi | West African
Apo wakulila nswangala wabalume |

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ILAM

Folk music. Weddng song. Further details refer to ILAM field card (C3H)

Luunda women (Performer)

 1949-07-20 axes | Clapping | goblet Drum | ILAM | Kambwali | Kawambwa | Lake Mwexa | Lake Nwenu | Luunda | Luunda | Northern Rhodesia | slit Drum | West African | Zambia
Asere Eoba Wa | West African

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ILAM

Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR0745

African Music Research Party (Performer)
Composer not specified

 1958-00-00 African Music Research Party | Guitar | Ibo | Igbo | ILAM | Indigenous music | Nigeria | Vocal | West African
Aye | West African

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ILAM

High life dance music, performed on various instruments

The Gold Coast Police Band (Performer)

 1958-00-00 Bead rattle | Big band music style | Brass instruments | dance | Drum | Ga | Gold Coast Police Band | Guitar | Hempstead,J.H. | High Life | ILAM | Instrumental | Maracas | Popular music | Rhythm sticks | Rumba | Sierra Leone | West African
Baby you too Tampalay | West African

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ILAM

Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR0759

Calendar and his Maringar Band (Performer)
Composer not specified

 1954-00-00 Calendar | Calypso music | Creole | Drum | Guitar | ILAM | Maringar Band | Popular music | Saxophone | Stick | Vocal | West African
Befrakuma Tofoyige | West African

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ILAM

Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR0699

The Denu Singers (Performer)
Composer not specified

 1950-00-00 Dance song | Denu Singers | Ewe | Ghana | ILAM | Indigenous music | Rattle | Shaker | Togo | Vocal | West African
Bondo Devil Go Woke | West African

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ILAM

Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR0748

Calendar and his Maringar Band (Performer)
Composer not specified

 1958-00-00 Calendar | Calypso music | Creole | Guitar | ILAM | Maringar | Maringar Band | Popular music | Vocal | West African
Bonse bakende |

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ILAM

Folk music. Burial song. Further detail refer to ILAM field card (C3X)

Tesina Ndende (Performer)

 1949-08-05 ILAM | Lenje | Lenje | Nkana Mine | Northern Rhodesia | slit Drum | Tesina Ndende | West African | Wusakili Compound | Zimbabwe
Bus Conducto | West African

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ILAM

Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR0739

Mensah, E.T. (Performer)
Tempos Band (Performer)
Composer not specified

 1958-00-00 Band music | Drum | Fanti | Ghana | Guitar | ILAM | Mensah,E.T. | Popular music | Saxophone | Tempos Band | Vocal | West African
By Oh By Oh | West African

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ILAM

Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR0750

Calendar and his Maringar Band (Performer)
Composer not specified

 1958-00-00 Calendar | Calypso music | Creole | Guitar | ILAM | Maringar | Maringar Band | Popular music | Vocal | West African
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