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Title Audio Collection Description Composer Date All terms
Tatwaibombe incito yafilwa masoca |

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ILAM

Drinking song for Mupukumo dance. It is for men and women and accompanied by rattle and clapping. Refer ILAM field card C3X4

David Mulenga
Bemba men and women

 1949-08-05 Bemba | Bemba | Clapping | drinking | ILAM | men | Mulenga,David | Mupukumo | Northern Rhodesia | Rattle | Song | Southern African | women | Zambia
Teco mubelile |

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ILAM

Zomba dance song performed by young men and women, accompanied by beating stick on ths side of a bass drum. The English title is That is why you are this way. Refer ILAM field card C4M8

Samuel Chishala (Performer)
Bemba young men (Performer)

 1949-08-20 Bemba | Bemba | Chishala,Samuel | dance | Drum | ILAM | Indigenous music | Northern Rhodesia | Song | Southern African | Young men and women | Zambia | Zomba dance
Tubila tunwe |

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ILAM

Further detail refer ILAM shellac record number: TP0657-XYZT4028

Composer not specified
Bemba men (Performer)

 1949-00-00 Bemba | Bemba | Dance music | Folk music | Hunting song | ILAM | Indigenous music | Northern Rhodesia | Southern African | Unaccompanied | Zambia
Tubila tunwe; Fill up the pot, let us drink |

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ILAM

Hunting song to accompany the Bulumba hunting dance. It is sung after the hunt
Refer ILAM field card C3P15

Bemba men at the Mufulira Mine

 1949-07-28 Bemba | Bemba | Bulumba | dance | hunting | ILAM | Northern Rhodesia | Song | Southern African | Zambia
Tuleupwako ubanyonge |

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ILAM

Further detail refer ILAM shellac record number: TP0659-XYZT4030

Composer not specified
Bemba men (Performer)

 1949-00-00 Bemba | Bemba | Drinking song | Drum | Folk music | ILAM | Indigenous music | Northern Rhodesia | Southern African | Zambia
Tuteye solo |

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ILAM

Dance song with drums
Further details refer ILAM field card (C3D5)

Group of Bemba women (Performer)

 1949-07-16 Bemba | Bemba | Dance music | Drum | Folk song | ILAM | Indigenous music | Northern Rhodesia | Southern African | Zambia
Tutole kantu panshi |

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ILAM

Translated English title - "Let us pick it up." Accompanied by beating of two tins. Further information refer ILAM field card number: C3Z-3

Composer not specified
Mulenga, L. (Performer)

 1949-08-07 Bemba | Bemba | Folk music | ILAM | Indigenous music | Luvale | Mulenga,L. | Northern Rhodesia | Southern African | Tin | Wedding song | Zambia
Wendo seneme | East African

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ILAM

Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR3503.

Bemba Dancers (Performer)
E. Bwalya (Leader)
Composer not specified

 1954-00-00 Bemba | Bemba | Bwalya,Edward | Drum | East African | ILAM | Indigenous music | Kitwe | Northern Rhodesia | Zambia | Zomba dance
Wenseka cula naiwe ukacula; You will laugh at the frog will suffe |

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ILAM

Concert song with a play on words
Refer ILAM field card C3P13

Bemba men at the Mufulira Mine

 1949-07-28 Bemba | Bemba | Concert | frog | ILAM | Northern Rhodesia | Song | Southern African | wordplay | Zambia
Weuseka cula naiwe ukacula |

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ILAM

Further detail refer ILAM shellac record number: TP0654-XYZT4026

Composer not specified
Bemba boys (Performer)

 1949-00-00 Bemba | Bemba | Chibao,Nobati | Concert song | ILAM | Northern Rhodesia | Southern African | Unaccompanied | Zambia
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