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Lithoko tsa Morena Neo Sibi

- Group of Sotho men and Khotso Lepheana (Performers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Group of Sotho men and Khotso Lepheana (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Sotho , Praise , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
Language: Southern Sotho
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134241 , vital:37104 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR018-10
Description: The praises spoken in the intervals of the song are in honour of the fighters of the tribe. (Knotso means 'Peace'.) The hero of this praise verse is the Chief of the Sibi location, a region north of Matatiele lying along the Qacha's Nek Road, adjoining the eastern border of Basutoland.
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Date Issued: 1957

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Malomile

- Group of Sotho women (Perfomers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Group of Sotho women (Perfomers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Sotho , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
Language: Southern Sotho
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134187 , vital:37096 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR018-04
Description: The singers say: "I am travelling, I am going away"
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Mamosi

- Composer not specified, Group of Sotho men and women (Performers), Hugh Tracey

Authors: Composer not specified , Group of Sotho men and women (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Sotho , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
Language: Southern Sotho
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133965 , vital:37054 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR016-03
Description: Party dance for men and women with clapping
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Mngoma uvelaphi (Hullo, where do you come from?)

- Group of Hlangwini men, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Group of Hlangwini men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-sa
Language: Southern Sotho
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151428 , vital:39097 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-04
Description: An elderly crippled man leapt out at the end of this song and swung himself right off the ground swivelling round on his crutch and landing on his one good leg. Ndhlamu dance song with clapping.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Mngoma uvelaphi (Hullo, where do you come from?)

- Group of Hlangwini men, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Group of Hlangwini men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-sa
Language: Southern Sotho
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151475 , vital:39133 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-05
Description: An elderly crippled man leapt out at the end of this song and swung himself right off the ground swivelling round on his crutch and landing on his one good leg. Ndhlamu dance song with clapping.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Mokhoroane (The dove)

- Theko Moshesh, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Theko Moshesh , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-sa
Language: Southern Sotho
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151619 , vital:39148 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-17
Description: The Lesiba is a wind blown stringed instrument, mostly played by herd boys as they herd their cattle on the hills. It consists of a slightly bent stick of abour 36-40 long. Along one side is strained a string, sometimes of horse hair or sinew, to one end of which is attached a section of fowl's quill. This is held in place by placing it between small double wedges held firmly in a small hole drilled into that end of the stick. Self-delectative song with Lesiba stick zither with quill.
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Date Issued: 1957

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Mokorotlo with Lithoko

- Composer not specified, Group of Sotho men (Performers), Hugh Tracey

Authors: Composer not specified , Group of Sotho men (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folklore , Speeches, addresses, etc., African , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
Language: Southern Sotho
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133956 , vital:37053 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR016-02
Description: Praise chant and speeches
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Ndiy' nyama emnandi kwabaka bawo (I am good meat)

- Group of Hlangwini women, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Group of Hlangwini women , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-sa
Language: Southern Sotho
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151309 , vital:39050 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-03
Description: "I am good meat to my father's children, they are throwing only bones to me. I should have been dead if the diviners had not been looking after me." The orign of this song and its literal translation are both obsecure. Hoeing song - work song.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Nteta ya nkosi (Chief's speech)

- Headman Bennett Baleni, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Headman Bennett Baleni , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-sa
Language: Southern Sotho
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151291 , vital:39048 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-01
Description: The headman of this location Bernett Baleni is himself a Hlangwini, but many of his people are both Baca and Sotho. The dialect they speak is a mixture, they say, of all three, but is classified as Baca. Speech with praise cries.
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Date Issued: 1957

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Pikoko

- Group of Sotho women (Perfomers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Group of Sotho women (Perfomers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Sotho , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
Language: Southern Sotho
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134145 , vital:37078 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR018-03
Description: The curious dance was executed on their knees, and consisted of rhythmic jerking movements of the arms, torso and shoulders. The dance is peculiar to the women only. There is a refrain: "Tokolosho," "The imp."
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Puo ea Morena George T. Moshoeshoe

- Chief George T. Moshoeshoe (Composer), Chief George T. Moshoeshoe (Performer), Hugh Tracey

Authors: Chief George T. Moshoeshoe (Composer) , Chief George T. Moshoeshoe (Performer) , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folklore , Speeches, addresses, etc., African , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
Language: Southern Sotho
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133905 , vital:37036 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR016-01
Description: Lithoko, praises and speech with praise cries
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Puo ea Morena George T. Moshoeshoe

- Chief George T. Moshoeshoe (Composer), Chief George T. Moshoeshoe (Performer), Hugh Tracey

Authors: Chief George T. Moshoeshoe (Composer) , Chief George T. Moshoeshoe (Performer) , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folklore , Speeches, addresses, etc., African , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
Language: Southern Sotho
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133910 , vital:37037 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR016-01
Description: Lithoko, praises and speech with praise cries
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Puo ea Morena Neo Sibi

- Chief Neo Sibi (Performer), Chief Neo Sibi (Composer), Hugh Tracey

Authors: Chief Neo Sibi (Performer) , Chief Neo Sibi (Composer) , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Speeches, addresses, etc., African , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
Language: Southern Sotho
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134223 , vital:37102 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR018-08
Description: The Chief thanked the recording party for coming to record and asked his people not to forget their traditional songs.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Sake tlo bone sekate (Sake, come and see the damage done on the lands)

- Group of Sotho women, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Group of Sotho women , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-sa
Language: Southern Sotho
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151590 , vital:39145 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-14
Description: The four leading women sang this song on their knees, and the principal singer also mimed the torso, hip and arm movements of the dance whilst she sang. Mokihibo dance for women (knee dance) with clapping.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Tenshin (Attention)

- Sotho men and women, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Sotho men and women , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-sa
Language: Southern Sotho
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151533 , vital:39139 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-09
Description: "We stand at attention whenever we see him." Meaning we respect the Chief and salute him respectfully whenever we see him. The old lady, leading the song was the mother-in-law of the Chief and therefore was not allowed to mention her son-in-law's name, according to the 'Hlonipa' custom by which a woman must speak in synonyms of her husband and his family. Agricultural and domestic work song for hoeing.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Thali ea ma tsoana (The lightening of the Chieftainess)

- Sotho men and women, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Sotho men and women , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-sa
Language: Southern Sotho
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151572 , vital:39143 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-12
Description: This song is a work song for hoeing. Agricultural and domestic work song for grinding.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Tsa eja setsi

- Group of Sotho men and small Sotho boys (Performers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Group of Sotho men and small Sotho boys (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Sotho , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
Language: Southern Sotho
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134196 , vital:37098 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR018-05
Description: The spirited re-enaction of a mouse-hunt was performed by a group of middle-aged Sotho men, who had all gone mouse-hunting in their youth as herdboys. One sat on the ground, stabbing at imaginery mice, whilst the others encouraged him with shouts and cries-indicating in which direction the mouse had gone. It got away.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Tsina (Thresh)

- Sotho men and women, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Sotho men and women , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-sa
Language: Southern Sotho
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151511 , vital:39137 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-08
Description: "We are threshing the corn out of which we get cattle, we get beer, we get everything." Agricultural and domestic song for threshing.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Tula moana me (Hush, mother's child)

- Sotho men and women, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Sotho men and women , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-sa
Language: Southern Sotho
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151558 , vital:39142 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-11
Description: This song is a lullaby used as a grinding son. Agricultural and domestic work song for grinding.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Uyabaleka wemungoma hmu (The diviner runs away)

- Group of young Hlangwini men, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Group of young Hlangwini men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-sa
Language: Southern Sotho
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151484 , vital:39134 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-06
Description: This group of young men had evidently been to the gold mines for they were all wearing the full mine trousers decorated with blue patches. One of them "Shortie" was the cause of much gaiety to the women spectators, who called out (in Baca) "try standing a bit higher, Sho'tie". His trousers were so long and billowing that even when they were hitched up round the knee, they fell in full and graceful folds like a skirt. Ndhlamu dance song with clapping.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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