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Title Audio Collection Description Composer Date All terms
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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
Untitled |

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ILAM

Further details refer to ILAM CD number: BC76.

 1900-01-00 Drum | ILAM | Indigenous music | Rattle | Southern Congo | Vocal | West African
Untitled |

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ILAM

Further details refer to ILAM CD number: BC76.

 1900-01-00 Belgian Congo | Congo | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Drum | ILAM | Indigenous music | Likembe | West African
Uye mama liboko liami |

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ILAM

Folk music. Kacaca Dance Song. Further details refer to ILAM field card (C3z)

Longwani Mungomba (Performer)

 1949-08-07 Chibuluma African Township | Clapping | ILAM | Kitwe Town Compound | Longwani Mungomba | Luvale | Luvale | Northern Rhodesia | West African | Zimbabwe
Wampeleka yekwa Bayako |

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ILAM

Folk music for self-entertainment and accompanied by the Hera. Further details refer to ILAM field card (C5R10)

Simbi Wezeka Malaki (Performer)

 1949-09-20 Cape Verde | Chikunda | Hera | ILAM | Portugese East Africa | Senegal | Simbi Wezeka Malaki | West African
Well Nar Day Now | West African

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ILAM

Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR0755

Ralph Wright and his Rythm Boys (Performer)
Composer not specified

 1954-00-00 Calypso music | Creole | Drum | Guitar | ILAM | Popular music | Rhythm Boys | Saxophone | Vocal | West African | Wright,Ralph
When I tire with you | West African

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ILAM

Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR0757

Ralph Wright and his Rythm Boys (Performer)
Composer not specified

 1954-00-00 Calypso music | Creole | Drum | Guitar | ILAM | Popular music | Rhythm Boys | Saxophone | Stick | Vocal | West African | Wright,Ralph
When me baby go born | West African

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ILAM

Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR0758

Calendar and his Maringar Band (Performer)
Composer not specified

 1954-00-00 Calendar | Calypso music | Creole | Drum | Guitar | ILAM | Maringar | Maringar Band | Popular music | Saxophone | Stick | Vocal | West African
Wo Owoo Lo | 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 | Ga | Ghana | Hot Shots | ILAM | Popular music | Saxophone | Stick | West African
You say you not want me again | West African

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ILAM

Calypso dance song performed by a small band of musicians

Calender (Performer)
Maringar Band (Performer)

 1958-00-00 Calendar | Call and response | Calypso | Creole | dance | Drum | Guitar | ILAM | Indigenous music | Man singing | Maringar Band | Popular music | Rhythmic beats on bottle | Sierra Leone | Song | West African
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