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Title Audio Collection Descriptionsort icon Composer Date All terms
Casablanca serenade | Caribbean

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ILAM

Calypso dance song performed on various instruments. The voices sing repetitive chorus lines rather than long melody. Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR1000

Randolph Simmons
The Casablanca Steel Orchestra

 1900-01-00 Calypso | Caribbean | Clarinet | Creole | dance | Guitar | ILAM | Popular music | Randolph Simmons | Repetitive melodic fragments | Saxophone | Song | Steel pans | The Casablanca Steel Orchestra | Traditional music | Trinidad | trumpet
Wantaga kusabule |

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ILAM

Chant-like Manyanga dance song with drums and a lengthy unaccompanied introduction. ILAM field card number is unknown

Leader Kasomangila (Performer)
Husumi Isike (Performer)
(Abdali) Wachezaji wa Manyanga (Performer)

 1950-00-00 Chant-like | dance | Drum | East African | Husumi Isike | ILAM | Kasomangila | Long Unaccompanied introduction | Manyanga | men | Nyamwezi | Song | Tanganyika | Tanzania | traditional | Wachezaji wa Manyanga
Ndinyenggana nde Mele |

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ILAM

Chikombo town dance for men and women, with singing, and accompanied by guitar and banjo. Refer ILAM field card DP8

Rabisoni Nangwale (Composer/Performer)
Jere Chikonda (Performer)

 1950-05-14 banjo | Chikomba,Jere | Chikombo | dance | Guitar | ILAM | Malawi | Nangwale,Robison | Nyanja | Nyasaland | singing | Southern African | town
Tula caya bala mashini. Come and see us work the jack-hammers |

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ILAM

Chingande dance song for men and women, accompanied by 1 conical and 1 hourglass drum. Refer ILAM field card C4D6

Timoti Makasakwe
Ila men and women at Roan Antelope Mine

 1949-08-11 Chingande | conical | dance | Drum | hourglass | Ila | Ila | ILAM | men | Northern Rhodesia | Roan Antelope Mine | Song | Southern African | Timoti Makasakwe | women | Zambia
Baconawana o ku Luanshya. The miners of Luanshya |

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ILAM

Chingande dance song for men and women, accompanied by a conical, pegged, open drum. Refer ILAM field card C4D5

Yunisi Namabezhi
Ila men and women at Roan Antelope Mine

 1949-08-11 Chingande | dance | Drum | Ila | Ila | ILAM | men | Namabezi,Yunisi | Northern Rhodesia | Roan Antelope Mine | Song | Southern African | women | Zambia
Chana chambansi |

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ILAM

Chinkwaza dance tune to accompany the inauguration of a new chief. It is accompanied by drums and xylophone
Refer ILAM field card C3I1

Nshila yanKonde at Mwansabombwe
Chief Kazembe

 1949-07-21 chief | Chief Kazembe | Chinkwaza dance | Chitala xylophone | dance | Drum | ILAM | inauguration | Luunda | Northern Rhodesia | Nshila yanKonde at Mwansabombwe | Southern African | tune | Zambia
Yalemba lemba ngoyu Lupondo. Wonder of wonders, is this Lupondo? |

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ILAM

Chinsengwe dance song for men and women, with clapping. Refer ILAM field card C4H11

Timoti Mungaila
Lenje men and women at Broken Hill Mine

 1949-08-15 Broken Hill Mine | Chinsengwe | Clapping | dance | ILAM | Lenje | Lenje | men | Northern Rhodesia | Song | Southern African | Timoti Mungaila | women | Zambia
Teshi ukone Muyaya |

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ILAM

Chinsengwe dance song for men and women, with xylophone. Refer ILAM field card C415

Taoni Chitanga at Broken Hill Mine

 1949-08-16 Broken Hill Mine | Chinsengwe | Chitanga,Town | dance | ILAM | Lenje | men | Northern Rhodesia | Song | Southern African | women | Xylophone | Zambia
Ada a Banda |

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ILAM

Chioda dance song for young women. The subject deals with a father who has to leave home to work on the mines. The song is accompanied by drum rhythms beaten on a box. Refer ILAM field card number D2E15

Lucy Nyamangwe (Performer)
Tonga girls (Performer)

 1950-05-29 Box | Chioda | dance | Drum | ILAM | Malawi | Migrant | mines | Nyamangwe,Lucy | Nyasaland | rhythm | Song | Southern African | Tonga | Tonga | Young women
Jasi dawa ya shaba |

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ILAM

Chipukizi rumba performed on guitar and wind instruments. The song is accompanied by the buzzing sounds of the kazoo whistle and singing. ILAM field card number is unknown

Leader Abdala Ibrahim (Composer/Performer)

 1950-00-00 Aerophone | banjo | Buzzing timbre | Chipukizi | Conical Drum | dance | East African | Flute band | Guitar | Ibrahim,Abdala | ILAM | Instrumental introduction | Kazoo | Popular | singing | Swahili | Tanganyika | Tanzania
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