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Title Audio Collection Description Composer Date All terms
Gile gile nkyamba. There are many hills |

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ILAM

Song sung at a party after the burial. Refer ILAM field card D2R13

Mwakyoma
Nyakyusa women

 1950-06-09 burial | ILAM | Mwakyoma | Nyakyusa | Nyakyusa | party | Song | Southern African | Tanganyika | Tanzania
Gili gili nkyamba |

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ILAM

Party after burial. Further details refer ILAM record no. TP1520.

Mwakyoma and Nyakyusa women (Performer)
Composer not specified

 1950-00-00 East African | Folk music | Hehe | ILAM | Indigenous music | Mwakyoma | Nyakyusa | Nyakyusa | Party song | Tanganyika | Tanzania | Unaccompanied
Komeka mwana sita losa mwana |

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ILAM

Kinanda dance song performed at a wedding and accompanied on the Kinanda zither. Refer ILAM field card D2R10

Singolile Mwamalundi
Nyakyusa men

 1950-06-09 dance | ILAM | Kinanda | men | Nyakyusa | Nyakyusa | Pango | Singolile Mwamalundi | Song | Southern African | Tanganyika | Tanzania | wedding | women | Zither
Mponda |

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ILAM

Mponda dance song for men and women with gourd rattles. Further details refer ILAM field card (D2R5)

Mwakapanda Kasebele(Performer)

 1950-06-09 Dance music | Dance song | East African | Folk music | Gourd | ILAM | Indigenous music | Mponda | Mwakapanda Kasebele | Nyakyusa | Nyakyusa | Rattle | Tanganyika | Tanzania | Tukuyu
Tusumwike ku kaya ndaga mugonile. Now we have buried him, who will take his place |

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ILAM

Burial song in the form of a chant. Refer ILAM field card D2R11

Siyananoli Sanyila
Nyakyusa women

 1950-06-09 bereavement | burial | chant | ILAM | Nyakyusa | Nyakyusa | Siyananoli Sanyila | Song | Southern African | Tanganyika | Tanzania
Ugonile Mwakenja |

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ILAM

Nganya dance song with Pango zither and bells. Further details refer ILAM shellac record number: TP1477

Singolile Mwamalundi (Performer)
Composer not specified

 1950-00-00 bell | Dance song | East African | Folk music | ILAM | Indigenous music | Nganya dance | Nyakyusa | Nyakyusa | Pango | Singolile Mwamalundi | Tanganyika | Tanzania | Zither
Ugonile mwankenja |

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ILAM

Nganya dance song for men and women, usually performed at weddings. Refer ILAM field card D2R9

Singolile Mwamalundi
Nyakyusa men

 1950-06-09 dance | ILAM | men | Nganya | Nyakyusa | Nyakyusa | Singolile Mwamalundi | Song | Southern African | Tanganyika | Tanzania | wedding | women
Untitled |

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ILAM

Further details refer ILAM reel number: BC59.

Peggy Tracey (Narrator)
Nyakyusa Men (Performer)

 1900-01-00 East African | Folk music | ILAM | Indigenous music | Nyakyusa | Nyakyusa | Tanganyika | Tanzania | Tracey, Peggy | Tukuyu
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