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Bolelela Ramonogeng (Tell Ramonogeng)

- Mamideo Motlokwa and 22 men and women, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Mamideo Motlokwa and 22 men and women , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1959
Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Gopane f-sa
Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165792 , vital:41282 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0115-03
Description: Song sung on returning to the village from the hills after the end of the initiation schooling. Three boys initiation song.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1959

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Dumedisa Moeng

- Mamidse Motlokwa and 22 men, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Mamidse Motlokwa and 22 men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1959
Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Gopane f-sa
Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165787 , vital:41281 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0115-02
Description: A song sung while the young men are living out on the hills during their initiation schooling. Three boys initiation song.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1959

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Kgongana tshewa (Must I pay a beast in order to marry you?)

- Momitse Mutokwa and 18 men, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Momitse Mutokwa and 18 men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1959
Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Gopane f-sa
Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165814 , vital:41284 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0115-05
Description: A song sung by the bridegroom's party. Wedding song.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1959

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Maipetleko

- Dingalo and group of young boys and girls, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Dingalo and group of young boys and girls , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1959
Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Gopane f-sa
Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165683 , vital:41271 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0114-07
Description: This song os sung with the accompanying dance, in order to ask the Chief's pernission to go to the initiation school. It seems the young would-be initiates must go to the Chief's house and dance and sing the whole night through. The leader of this group was the Chief's cousin. The boys dance, whilst the girls stand in a row, singing and clapping. The boys all carried long thin wands in their hands and were wearing short loin cloths and leg rattles made of the nests of a variety of wasp which resemble the cacoons of the bag-worm, though somewhat larger. The girls wore short skirts. Both boys and girls were between 15 and 16 years of age. Pre-initiation dance song with leg rattles - "Mathlao".
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1959

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Mamarutla

- Dingalo and group of young boys and girls, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Dingalo and group of young boys and girls , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1959
Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Gopane f-sa
Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165678 , vital:41270 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0114-06
Description: This song os sung with the accompanying dance, in order to ask the Chief's pernission to go to the initiation school. It seems the young would-be initiates must go to the Chief's house and dance and sing the whole night through. The leader of this group was the Chief's cousin. The boys dance, whilst the girls stand in a row, singing and clapping. The boys all carried long thin wands in their hands and were wearing short loin cloths and leg rattles made of the nests of a variety of wasp which resemble the cacoons of the bag-worm, though somewhat larger. The girls wore short skirts. Both boys and girls were between 15 and 16 years of age. Pre-initiation dance song with leg rattles - "Mathlao".
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1959

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Morulantshoana (Something that makes your heart happy)

- Abraham Mudukanele and 18 Hurutshe men, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Abraham Mudukanele and 18 Hurutshe men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1959
Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Gopane f-sa
Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165778 , vital:41280 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0115-01
Description: The allusion in the title is to the approaching rite of circumcision and is the first song sung on going up to the hills. Three boys initiation song.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1959

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Motee (Name)

- Abraham Mudukanele and 18 Hurutshe men, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Abraham Mudukanele and 18 Hurutshe men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1959
Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Gopane f-sa
Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165705 , vital:41273 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0114-09
Description: Male initiation song sung on going up into the hills for the period of seclusion during the initiation school.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1959

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Natal koa Boroa Tshukudu

- Dingalo and group of young boys and girls, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Dingalo and group of young boys and girls , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1959
Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Gopane f-sa
Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165688 , vital:41272 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0114-08
Description: This song os sung with the accompanying dance, in order to ask the Chief's pernission to go to the initiation school. It seems the young would-be initiates must go to the Chief's house and dance and sing the whole night through. The leader of this group was the Chief's cousin. The boys dance, whilst the girls stand in a row, singing and clapping. The boys all carried long thin wands in their hands and were wearing short loin cloths and leg rattles made of the nests of a variety of wasp which resemble the cacoons of the bag-worm, though somewhat larger. The girls wore short skirts. Both boys and girls were between 15 and 16 years of age. Pre-initiation dance song with leg rattles - "Mathlao".
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1959

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Pula (Rain)

- Abraham Sidumedi and group of 6 men, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Abraham Sidumedi and group of 6 men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1959
Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Gopane f-sa
Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165647 , vital:41267 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0114-03
Description: Sidumedi, the leader, sang with great intensity of felling, living the words and accompanying them with gesture and poise. Another variation of this song was also recorded at Wilkeigat. Song for rain.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1959

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Tsiroro (Do you want to be married, Tsiroro?)

- Momitse Mutokwa and 18 Hurutshe men, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Momitse Mutokwa and 18 Hurutshe men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1959
Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Gopane f-sa
Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165805 , vital:41283 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0115-04
Description: Singers and audience all got up and danced with enthusiasm during the replying of their recording. The day was very hot and these recordings were made in a temperature of over 105 degrees in the shade. Betrothal song.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1959

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Xhosa I (Saturday is a lonely day)

- Four men and group of women, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Four men and group of women , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1959
Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Gopane f-sa
Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165660 , vital:41268 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0114-04
Description: "Saturday is a lonely day." "If you have no one to go out with on a Saturday, you feel very lonely indeed", they explained. This version of the step dance which is performed with rubber or other padding on the ankles, is similar to the 'Isicatulo' boot dance of the Southern Zulu and Xhosa tribes. Step dance with clapping.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1959

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Xhosa II (Xhosa)

- Four men and group of women, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Four men and group of women , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1959
Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Gopane f-sa
Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165665 , vital:41269 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0114-05
Description: "Saturday is a lonely day." "If you have no one to go out with on a Saturday, you feel very lonely indeed", they explained. This version of the step dance which is performed with rubber or other padding on the ankles, is similar to the 'Isicatulo' boot dance of the Southern Zulu and Xhosa tribes. Step dance with clapping.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1959

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Yelakomo kigoala file (Give me a cow because I have cured you)

- Abraham Mudukanele and 18 Hurutshe men, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Abraham Mudukanele and 18 Hurutshe men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1959
Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Gopane f-sa
Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165714 , vital:41274 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0114-10
Description: Initiation song sung on returning from the hills
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1959

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