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Title Audio Collection Descriptionsort icon Composer Date All terms
Munsuro | West African

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ILAM

High life dance music, performed on various instruments

ET Mensah's Tempos Band (Performer)

 1958-00-00 Brass instruments | Clave rhythm | dance | Drum set | Fante | Ghana | Guitar | High Life | ILAM | Instrumental | Mensah,E.T. | Percusssion instruments | Popular music | Rhythm sticks | Tempos Band | West African
All for you | West African

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ILAM

High life dance music, performed on various instruments

ET Mensah's Tempos Band (Performer)

 1958-00-00 Brass instruments | Clave rhythm | dance | Drum set | English | Ghana | Guitar | High Life | ILAM | Instrumental | Mensah,E.T. | Percusssion instruments | Popular music | Rhythm sticks | Tempos Band | West African
Namga ndalubako |

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ILAM

Hunting song. Further details refer to ILAM field card (C3X)

Tesina Nedende (Performer)

 1949-08-05 Clapping | ILAM | Lenje | Lenje | Nkana Mine | Northern Rhodesia | Tesina Nedende | West African | Wusakili Compound | Zimbabwe
Nabakansike mu musebo |

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ILAM

School song. Indigenous Luunda Music. "Bury me near the road". Further details refer to ILAM field card (C3J)

Lili Nwamsa (Composer/Performer)

 1949-07-22 Bemba | Clapping | goblet Drum | ILAM | Katraluye | Kawambwa | L.L. Settlement | Luunda | Northern Rhodesia | Nwamsa,Lili | West African | Zimbabwe
A musa nilati munu ise ka luna |

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ILAM

Siyemboka dance song for men and women. Further details refer to ILAM field card (C3X)

Kabunda (Performer)

 1949-08-05 ILAM | Lozi | Lozi | Nkana Mine | Northern Rhodesia | Sishumba,Kabunda | West African | Wusakili Compound | Xylophone | Zimbabwe
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
Tumba-Tumba |

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ILAM

Topical song. Further details refer ILAM field card F1M-13

Chibanda Bandawin (Performer and Composer)

 1952-01-26 Accordion | Baudouin,Chibanda | Bottle | Central African | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Elizabethville | Guitar | ILAM | Kazoo | Swahili | Topical song | West African
Divuwanganai |

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ILAM

Topical song. Further details refer ILAM field card number F1N-3

Chibanda Bandawini (Performer)
Composer not specified

 1952-01-27 Accordion | Baudouin,Chibanda | Bottle | Central African | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Elizabethville | Guitar | ILAM | Kanyora | Topical song | West African
Fine Fine Paulina | West African

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ILAM

Translated English title - "Highlife." Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR0741
Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR0741

The Hot Shots (Performer)
Composer not specified

 1958-00-00 Band music | Buddy Squire | Drum | Ga | Ghana | Hot Shots | ILAM | Popular music | Saxophone | Stick | West African
Kambembe chidiwo |

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ILAM

Wedding song. Further details refer to ILAM field card (C5Q4)

Portuguese soldiers (Performer)

 1949-09-19 Cape Verde | ILAM | Portugese East Africa | Portuguese soldiers | Sena | Senegal | Unaccompanied | West African
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