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Title Audio Collection Description Composer Date All terms
Dekye |

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ILAM

Further details refer ILAM field card number: F4G 6

Zande elephant drivers ("cornacs") (Performer)
Composer not specified

 1952-08-03 Belgian Congo | Central African | Congo | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Dungu | elephant drivers (cornacs) | Folk music | ILAM | Indigenous music | Republic of the Congo | Topical song | Unaccompanied | Vongara | Zande | Zande | Zomba
Diba debai kamwema |

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ILAM

Town dance song, "Bikinya". For further details refer to ILAM card no. F1M2.

Kamwema Jean (Composer)

 1952-01-26 Belgian Congo | Central African | Congo | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Elisabethville | ILAM | Indigenous music | Kamwema Jean | Luba
Diba debai Kamwema |

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ILAM

Town Dance. Further details refer ILAM field card number F1M-2

Kamwema Jean (Performer and Composer)

 1952-01-26 Belgian Congo | Birinya Dance | Central African | Congo | Dance music | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Folk song | Guitar | ILAM | Indigenous music | Kamwema Jean | Luba | Town dance
Diba Debai Kamwema | East African

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ILAM

Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR2615.

Kamwema Jean Et Ses Amis (Performer)
Composer not specified

 1954-00-00 Belgian Congo | Clapping | Congo | Democratic Republic of the Congo | East African | ILAM | Indigenous music | Kamwema Jean | Luba
Dingala Town | Central African

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ILAM

Further details refer ILAM record number: CR2579.

Mwenda Jean Bosco (Performer)
Composer not specified

 1954-00-00 Belgian Congo | Bottle | Central African | Dance song | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Guitar | Guitar solo | ILAM | Indigenous music | Jadotville | Mwenda,Jean Bosco | Swahili | Tambala moja
Diuvaygana |

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ILAM

Further details refer ILAM field card no. F1M14b.

Chibanda Baudouin (Performer)

 1952-01-27 Accordion | Baudouin,Chibanda | Belgian Congo | Bottle | Central African | Congo | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Elizabethville | Guitar | ILAM | Kanyoka | Topical song
Djigida |

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ILAM

Rumba music. Further details refer ILAM fieldcard F4M-7.

C. Ombiza (Composer/Performer)

 1952-08-17 Belgian Congo | Bottle | Central African | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Guitar | ILAM | Indigenous music | Ngwana | Ombiza,Charles | Oroclos | Stanleyville | Swahili | Topical song
Dominique | Central African

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ILAM

Lively dance song accompanied by various instruments.

Albert Kaswabilanda
John Ouwerx
Ensemble Lolaka

 1900-01-00 Belgian Congo | Central African | Clave rhythm | Congo | dance | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Ensemble Lolaka | Guitar | ILAM | Indigenous music | Kaswabilanda,Albert | Maracas | Men singing | Ouwerx,John | Popular music | Repetitive | Rhythm sticks | Song
Drum rhythms |

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ILAM

Drum rythms. Composer not specified. Further details refer ILAM record number SABC-HT37A9

Luba men (Performer)

 1958-07-29 Belgian Congo | Congo | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Drum | ILAM | Instrumental | Luba | Luba | Republic of the Congo | Southern African | Tracey, Hugh | Zaire
Drum signals of the Mangbele ("Announcing a death") |

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ILAM

Further details refer ILAM field card number: F4E 7

drummers of Chief Mongika (Performer)
Composer not specified

 1952-08-01 Belgian Congo | Central African | Congo | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Drum | Drum signals | Drummers of Chief Mongika | Folk music | Gombari | ILAM | Indigenous music | Ituri | Mangbele | Republic of the Congo | rhythm
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