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Title Audio Collection Description Composer Date All terms
Kasongo Malefu |

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ILAM

Town Dance. Further details refer ILAM field card number F1M-11

Chibanda Baudouin (Performer)
Composer not specified

 1952-01-26 Accordion | Baudouin,Chibanda | Belgian Congo | Bottle | Central African | Congo | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Guitar | ILAM | Kazoo | Masinga Dance | Swahili | Town dance
Kasongo Mulefu |

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ILAM

Song for the maringa dance, a town dance. Further details refer ILAM field card no. F1M11.

Chibanda Baudouin (Performer)

 1952-01-26 Accordion | Baudouin,Chibanda | Belgian Congo | Central African | Congo | Dance song | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Elizabethville | Guitar | ILAM | Swahili
Kazadi |

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ILAM

Tshipoye dance music. Further details refer ILAM field card (F1N5)

Kazadi, A. (Performer)
Kankolongo, A (Performer)

 1952-01-27 Accordion | Central African | Congo | Dance music | Democratic Republic of the Congo | ILAM | Kankolongo,Alidor | Kasai | Kazadi,Antoine | Kazadi,Louis | Luba | Stick
Kazadi |

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ILAM

Further details refer ILAM field card number FIN-5

Kazadi Louis (Performer - guitarist)
Kazadi Antoine (Performer)
Kankolongo Alidor (Performer)

 1952-01-27 Accordion | Central African | Congo | Dance song | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Folk music | ILAM | Indigenous music | Kankolongo,Alidor | Kasai | Kazadi,Antoine | Kazadi,Louis | Luba | Republic of the Congo | Southern Congo | Tshipoye dance | Wooden stick
Kazadi | Central African

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ILAM

Tshipoyi dance song. Further details refer ILAM shellac record number TP4006.

L. Kazadi (Performer)
Composer not specified

 1952-00-00 Accordion | Belgian Congo | Central African | Dance song | Democratic Republic of the Congo | ILAM | Indigenous music | Kankolongo,Alidor | Kazadi,Louis | Luba | Stick
Kazadi | East African

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ILAM

Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR2588.

L. Kazadi (Performer)
A. Kankolongo (Performer)
A. Kazadi (Performer)
Composer not specified


 1952-00-00 Accordion | Belgian Congo | Congo | Democratic Republic of the Congo | East African | ILAM | Indigenous music | Kankolongo,Alidor | Kazadi,Antoine | Kazadi,Louis | Luba | Stick | Tshipoyi Dance song
Khalehare Wamarere |

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ILAM

Further details refer to ILAM CD number: BC70.

Composer not specified
Imbo (Performer)

 1900-01-00 Accordion | East African | ILAM | Imbo | Indigenous music | Kenya | Metal Plate | Nairobi
Koedoe |

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ILAM

Further details refer ILAM record number TP0482-ABC12194

Composer not specified
Mkwanazi, S. (Performrt)
Samuel Mkwanazi (Performer)

 1951-00-00 Accordion | Basutoland | concertina | ILAM | Indigenous music | Lesotho | Mkwanazi,Samuel | Song | Sotho | South Sotho | Southern African
Kolasi | East African

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ILAM

A topical song with accordian and struck iron. The accordian is used as a ground which creates a happy noise but has little, if any, melodic or harmonic relationship to the tonality or mode of the voice."The father of the girl I want to marry came to Mombasea leaving his daughter at home - so I came to Mombasa too and said to him 'Now how about it - I want to discuss the marriage arrangements'."
Further details refer ILAM field card number: F3B 5

 1952-05-24 Accordion | Chinda Kamwana | East African | Folk music | ILAM | Indigenous music | Kenya | Kiamuthambi | Kikuyu | Kikuyu territory | Struck iron | Topical song
Koras (Chorus) | East African

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ILAM

A Mamboko dance song with accordian and struck iron. The "struck iron" was an old starter ring from the flywheel of a car. It is necessary to have a circular or 'S' shaped piece of metal for convenient playing of the double beat. The performer called it 'Kengere' or 'Beru' bell.
The sweepers in Nairobi, they say, always come from Embu. Kibunga Waita, the iron player, was no exception. Elsewhere in Africa certain tribes tend to adopt one occupation exclusively.
After hearing a few Kikuyu songs to the accompaniment of the iron and accordian, the listener who is not case hardened to the noise, may experience a singing in the ears for several hours afterwards.
Listening to this kind of Kikuyu music is more a feat of endurance than an aesthetic pleasure.
Further details refer ILAM field card number: F3H 4

 1952-06-08 Accordion | Dance song | East African | Embu | Folk music | ILAM | Indigenous music | Johnnie Murethe Wambu | Kengere struck iron | Kenya | Kibunga Waita | Kikuyu | Mwamboko dance | Struck iron
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