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Title Audio Collection Description Composer Date All terms
Cost of living nar Freetown | 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
Daada ke Bei | 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
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
Essie Nana | West African

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ILAM

High life dance music, performed on various instruments

ET Mensah's Tempos Band (Performer)

 1958-00-00 Big band music style | 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
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
Fire Fire Fire | West African

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ILAM

Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR0747

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
Fwe bena Lucelo Ntanda |

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ILAM

Folk music. Girls initiation song with clapping. Further details refer to ILAM card (C3H)

Luunda women (Performer)

 1949-07-20 Clapping | goblet Drum | ILAM | Kambwali | Kawambwa | Lake Mwexa | Luunda | Luunda | Northern Rhodesia | 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
Go Home and Come Tomorrow Night | West African

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ILAM

Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR0752

Calendar and his Maringar Band (Performer)
Composer not specified

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