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Titlesort icon Audio Collection Description Composer Date All terms
Salumu sambusa |

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ILAM

Mkwaju dance song for men with Marimba xylophone, box rattle and friction sticks. Further details refer ILAM field card (D3O5)

Omari Saidi (Performer)

 1950-07-04 Box Rattle | Dance song | East African | Folk music | Friction stick | ILAM | Indigenous music | Marimba | Mkwaju | Nguja | Omari Saidi | Rattle | Stick | Swahili | Swahili | Xylophone | Zanziba
Spanyole | East African

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ILAM

Further details refer ILAM shellac record number: TP4005

Mulemba Marto (Performer)
Composer not specified

 1900-01-00 banjo | Bikinya town dance | Bottle | Dance song | East African | Guitar | ILAM | Mulemba Marto | Swahili | Swahili
Tanga lenu funga kae |

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ILAM

Stick dance "Hoist your sail high" Further details refer to ILAM field card D7N

Shaib Hemed (Composer)
Swahili men (Performer)

 1900-01-00 East African | Folk music | Hemed,Shaibu | ILAM | Indigenous music | Kenya | Ndongwe stick dance song | Swahili | Swahili
Tanga lenu funga kae; Hoist your soul high |

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ILAM

Ndongwe stick dance song accompanied by 3 cylindrical drums with different beaters, and 1 Zumali 5 holed oboe
Refer ILAM field card D7N6

Shaibu Hemed
Swahili men

 1950-10-13 dance | Drum | East African | Hemed,Shaibu | ILAM | Kenya | Ndongwe | Song | Stick | Swahili | Swahili | Zumali oboe
Tunakambiya munasikiya | East African

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ILAM

Mkwaju dance song. Further details refer ILAM field card D3O-6

Omari Saudi (Performer)
Composer not specified

 1950-07-04 Box Rattle | Dance song | East African | Folk song | Friction sticks | ILAM | Indigenous music | Marimba | Nguja | Omari Saudi | Swahili | Swahili | Tanganyika | Tanzania | Xylophone
Tunakwambiya munasikaya |

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ILAM

Further details refer ILAM field card number: D3O-6

Omari Saidi (Performer)

 1950-07-04 Box Rattle | Dance song | East African | Folk music | Friction stick | ILAM | Indigenous music | Marimba | Mkwaju dance | Nguja | Omari Saidi | Swahili | Swahili | Xylophone | Zanziba
Tunakwambiya munasikiya |

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ILAM

Mkwaju Dance Song. Further details refer ILAM card no D3O6

Omari Saidi (Performer)

 1950-07-04 Dance song | East African | Folk song | ILAM | Indigenous music | Nguja | Omari Saidi | Swahili | Swahili | Tanganyika | Tanzania
Ufalume ni jambo bora |

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ILAM

Dance song for women, accompanied by horn rattles, 2 cylindrical drums, 1 zumali and a 5 holed oboe
Refer ILAM field card D7N13

Mwane bibi
Swahili women

 1950-10-13 dance | Drum | East African | horn rattles | ILAM | Kenya | Mwane bibi | oboe | Song | Swahili | Swahili | women | Zumali oboe
Ufalume ni jambo bora |

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ILAM

Vugo dance song for women. Further details refer to ILAM field card D7N

Mwana Bibi (Composer)
Swahili women (Performer)

 1950-10-13 Cylindrical Drum | East African | Folk music | horn rattles | ILAM | Kenya | Mwana Bibi | oboe | Swahili | Swahili | Zumali
Untitled |

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ILAM

Further details refer ILAM reel number: BC58.

Swahili boys (Performer)
Hugh Tracey (Narrator)
Peggy Tracey (Narrator)

 1900-01-00 East African | ILAM | Muslim chant | Swahili | Swahili | Tanganyika | Tanzania | Tracey, Hugh | Tracey, Peggy
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