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Title Audio Collection Description Composer Date All terms
Kalelisa Makokwani |

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ILAM

Folk music. Tribal fighting. Women clapping and men stamp their feet. Further details refer to ILAM field card (C3X)

Peniasi Manyoni

 1949-08-05 Clapping | ILAM | Ngoni | Ngoni | Nkana Mine | Northern Rhodesia | Peniasi Manyoni | West African | Wusakili Compound | Zimbabwe
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
Kambenja mulunda. Mutunda wame. |

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ILAM

Folk muic. Mulenja Dance Song for men and women. Further details refer to ILAM field card (C3Y)

Musumali Chinyama (Performer)

 1949-08-05 Clapping | Cylindrical Drum | ILAM | Kitwe Town Compound | Likembe | Luvale | Musumali Chinyama | Northern Rhodesia | West African | Zimbabwe
Keep a girl of your own | 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 | Maringar Band | Popular music | Saxophone | Stick | Vocal | West African
Konko Lila | East African

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ILAM

Folk music. Wedding song. Futher details refer to ILAM field card (C3H)

Luunda women (Performer)

 1949-07-20 axes | Clapping | East African | goblet Drum | ILAM | Kambwali | Kawambwa | Lake Mwexa | Lake Nwenu | Luunda | Luunda | Northern Rhodesia | slit Drum | West African
Kopa Temfumu Iyafwanikela | West African

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ILAM

Further details refer ILAM library number: A5.

Chalwe Chasya (Performer)
Composer not specified

 1954-00-00 Bisa | Chalwe Chasya | Folk music | ILAM | Indigenous music | Praise song | West African
Korle Ru | West African

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ILAM

Dance performed by a small band of musicians

ET Mensah's Tempos Band (Performer)

 1958-00-00 dance | Drum | Guitar | ILAM | Indigenous music | Instrumental | Mensah,E.T. | Popular music | Rhythm sticks | Rumba | Saxophones | Tempos Band | West African
Koukou | West African

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ILAM

Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR1066

Malinke young girls (Performer)
Composer not specified

 1905-05-03 Drum | French Guinea | Guinea | ILAM | Indigenous music | Malinke | Malinke | Republic of Guinea | Vocal | West African
La Grande Chanson | West African

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ILAM

Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR1056

Aissata Gaoudelize (Performer)
Yankori Beibatane (Performer)
Composer not specified

 1905-05-04 Beibatane,Yankori | Clapping | Gaoudelize,Aissata | godye | ILAM | Indigenous music | Niger | Nigeria | Songhay | Sudan | Violin | West African | Zerma
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
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