Home

Traditional music

The browser contains 10 records per page. Use the pager at the bottom of the table to navigate to additional pages
For more information about each record click the Title link in the table below
Alternatively all "blue" words below are links to records which have been so tagged

Title Audio Collection Description Composer Date All terms
Eremye | Central African

You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
ILAM

Topical song about a leper who is lamenting his demise and loneliness. Further details refer ILAM field card number D5Y15

S Mondo
Nasuti Social Clu

 1950-09-02 Central African | Folk music | ILAM | Indigenous music | Lament | Leprosy | Mondo,S. | mourning | Nasuti Social Club | Ntongoli eight string lyre | Soga | Song | topical | Traditional music | Uganda
Eremye | Central African

You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
ILAM

Topical song accompanied by the Ntongoli eight string lyre. Further details refer ILAM field card number D5Y15

S Mondo
Nasuti Social Clu

 1950-09-02 Central African | Disease | East African | Folk music | ILAM | Indigenous music | Leprosy | Mondo,S. | Mournful | Nasuti Social Club | Ntongoli eight string lyre | Soga | Song | topical | Traditional music | Uganda
Ewaro yaitu eya Bunyoro | Central African

You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
ILAM

Propaganda song accompanied by various string instruments. Further details refer ILAM field card number D5I1

Matia Kaberuka
Western Province Demonstration Team

 1950-08-17 banjo | Central African | Guitar | ILAM | Indigenous music | Mandoline | Matia Kaberuka | Nkole | Nyoro | propaganda | Song | Traditional music | Uganda | Western Province Demonstration Team
Ewaro yaitu eya Bunyoro | Central African

You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
ILAM

Propaganda song accompanied by various string instruments. Same as CR0144-XYZ5295. Further details refer ILAM field card number D5I1

Matia Kaberuka
Western Province Demonstration Team

 1950-08-17 banjo | Central African | Guitar | ILAM | Indigenous music | Mandoline | Matia Kaberuka | Nkole | Nyoro | propaganda | Song | Traditional music | Uganda | Western Province Demonstration Team
Fete fo so | Caribbean

You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
ILAM

Calypso dance performed on various instruments.Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR1006

Randolph Simmons
The Casablanca Steel Orchestra

 1900-01-00 Calypso | Caribbean | Creole | dance | ILAM | Instrumental | Iron bell | Popular music | Randolph Simmons | Steel pans | The Casablanca Steel Orchestra | Traditional music | Trinidad
Gumboot dance |

You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
ILAM

Dance with 6 routines. Further details refer ILAM field card (BB13)

Four dancers (Performer)
Madiba, J. (Performer - guitarist)

 1948-07-26 Dance music | Guitar | ILAM | KwaZulu-Natal | Madiba,J. | Natal | South Africa | Southern African | Traditional music | Zulu
Ha u oa ra sala | Southern African

You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
ILAM

Song accompanied by the piano

Aliwal North Sesotho Choir (Performer)

 1950-00-00 Aliwal North Sesotho Choir | Choir | ILAM | men and women | Part-singing | Piano | Popular music | Secular music | Sotho | South Africa | Southern African | Traditional music
Ham from customs | Caribbean

You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
ILAM

Calypso dance performed on steel pans.Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR1002

Alric Farrell
The Merry Makers Steel Orchestra

 1900-01-00 Calypso | Caribbean | Creole | dance | Farrell,Alric | ILAM | Instrumental | Merry Makers Steel Orchestra | Popular music | Steel pans | Traditional music | Trinidad
Haminatsowe | Southern African

You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
ILAM

Traditional song performed by a man and women. They are accompanied by a string instrument identified as a Shangaan harp. The harp is possibly an Autoharp

John Khoza
Women's Choir

 1960-00-00 Choir | Cyclical | Folk music | ILAM | Indigenous music | John Khosa | Man calling and women respond | Repetition | Shangaan | Song | South Africa | Southern African | Traditional music | women
Hure Gaza | Southern African

You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
ILAM

Traditional song performed by a man and women. They are accompanied by a string instrument identified as a Shangaan harp. The harp is possibly an Autoharp

John Khoza
Women's Choir

 1960-00-00 Autoharp | Choir | Chordophone | Folk music | ILAM | Indigenous music | John Khosa | Man calling and women respond | Repetition | Shangaan | Shangaan harp | South Africa | Southern African | String | Traditional music | women
Syndicate content