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Titlesort icon Audio Collection Description Composer Date All terms
Xirilo |

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ILAM

Song accompanied by mbira and malimba
Lament
Refer ILAM field card CB8

Notiso Magaiza

 1949-05-23 Dzibi | ILAM | Lament | Magaiza,Notiso | malimba | Mbira | Mozambique | Portuguese East Africa | Song | Southern African | Tswa
Wemba umlungu welizwe | Southern African

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ILAM

Translated English title - "Now the white man has taken our country away from us." Further details refer ILAM field card number: L1K 6

Xhosa women (Performer)
Composer not specified

 1957-05-10 Ciskei | Clapping | Eastern Cape | Folk music | ILAM | Indigenous music | Lament | Ngaika | South Africa | Southern African | Transkei | Vocals | Xhosa | Xhosa
Wasara oga musango |

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ILAM

Translated English title - "He is left alone in the bush." Further details refer ILAM Field card number: DD 1

Manyoni Zhou (Performer)
Simoni Mashoko Shawa (Performer)
Manyoni Zhou (Composer)

 1950-05-02 Chilimanzi | Govera | ILAM | Indigenous music | Karanga | Lament | Maridza mbira | Mbira | Muhera | Njari | Shawa,Simoni Mashoko | Southern African | Southern Rhodesia | Zhou,Manyoni | Zimbabwe
Wanodira hondohwe |

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ILAM

Soloist and 4 men

W. Murazikwa Pfeni (Performer)

 1948-04-22 ILAM | Lament | Manyika | Pfeni,W. Murazikwa | Southern African | Southern Rhodesia | Umtali | Zimbabwe
Valoyi |

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ILAM

Lament by mother of present chief, with dancing and clapping
Refer ILAM field card CL4

Chopi women at Zandamela

 1949-06-02 Chopi | Chopi | Clapping | dancing | ILAM | Lament | Mozambique | Portuguese East Africa | Song | Southern African | Zandamela
Untitled | East African

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ILAM

Further details refer ILAM shellac record number: TP4308

 1900-01-00 Chopi | East African | ILAM | Indigenous music | Lament | Mozambique | Portuguese East Africa | Song | Southern African | Unaccompanied | Vocals
Untitled |

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ILAM

Further details refer ILAM reel number: BC59.

Peggy Tracey (Narrator)

 1900-01-00 East African | Folk music | ILAM | Indigenous music | Kenya | Kipsigis | Lament | Love song | Tracey, Peggy
Tusumwike ku kaya ndaga |

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ILAM

Burial song with drone, call and response, and lament like qualities. ILAM field card number is unknown

Siyanaloli Sanyila (Composer/Performer)
Unidentified others (Performer)

 1950-00-00 burial | Call and response | chant | Drone | East African | ILAM | Lament | mourning | Nyakyusa | Siyanaloli Sanyila | Song | Tanganyika | Tanzania | traditional
Tusumwike ku kaya ndaga |

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ILAM

Burial song with drone, call and response, and lament like qualities. ILAM field card number is unknown

Siyanaloli Sanyila (Composer/Performer)
Unidentified others (Performer)

 1950-00-00 burial | Call and response | chant | Drone | East African | ILAM | Lament | mourning | Nyakyusa | Siyanaloli Sanyila | Song | Tanganyika | Tanzania | traditional | Unidentified others
Tukulila ifwa |

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ILAM

Lament, unaccompanied. Composer unknown. Further details refer ILAM field card (D2M2)

Enosi Mongoka (Performer)

 1950-06-04 East African | Enosi Mongoka | ILAM | Lament | Nkonde | Nkonde | Nyakyusa | Tanganyika | Tanzania | Tukuyu | Unaccompanied
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