Ke ke mmela ke ke
- Mashego, Barney (Chief), Four Pedi women, Tracey, Hugh
- Authors: Mashego, Barney (Chief) , Four Pedi women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Pedi (African people) , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Bushbuck Ridge f-sa
- Language: Pedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/188684 , vital:44776 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR195-03
- Description: This district is plagued, they say, by men who come home from employment eleswhere, eat the food of their relatives until it is all finished without doing a stroke of work to help, and then disappear from pastures new, leaving their families starving. "The day we pounded earth, pounding it for the bearded. Those who come in putting their beards in the food." (i.e. doing no work to produce it, but eating it only). The meaning behind this song is that the lazy men desearve only pounded earth, not good grain to eat. Pounding song with mortar and three pestles
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
- Authors: Mashego, Barney (Chief) , Four Pedi women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Pedi (African people) , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Bushbuck Ridge f-sa
- Language: Pedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/188684 , vital:44776 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR195-03
- Description: This district is plagued, they say, by men who come home from employment eleswhere, eat the food of their relatives until it is all finished without doing a stroke of work to help, and then disappear from pastures new, leaving their families starving. "The day we pounded earth, pounding it for the bearded. Those who come in putting their beards in the food." (i.e. doing no work to produce it, but eating it only). The meaning behind this song is that the lazy men desearve only pounded earth, not good grain to eat. Pounding song with mortar and three pestles
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
Tsa lla molapong
- Mashego, Barney (Chief), Four Pedi women, Tracey, Hugh
- Authors: Mashego, Barney (Chief) , Four Pedi women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Pedi (African people) , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Bushbuck Ridge f-sa
- Language: Pedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/188704 , vital:44778 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR195-04
- Description: This district is plagued, they say, by men who come home from employment eleswhere, eat the food of their relatives until it is all finished without doing a stroke of work to help, and then disappear from pastures new, leaving their families starving. The fourth woman stood by and added cries of encouragement. "They cry, they cry at the river. They hear legaletlwa (a tree)." The thorn tree has twisted boughs which are inclined to rub against each other amd emit occassional creaking sounds. Pounding song with mortar and three pestles
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
- Authors: Mashego, Barney (Chief) , Four Pedi women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Pedi (African people) , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Bushbuck Ridge f-sa
- Language: Pedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/188704 , vital:44778 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR195-04
- Description: This district is plagued, they say, by men who come home from employment eleswhere, eat the food of their relatives until it is all finished without doing a stroke of work to help, and then disappear from pastures new, leaving their families starving. The fourth woman stood by and added cries of encouragement. "They cry, they cry at the river. They hear legaletlwa (a tree)." The thorn tree has twisted boughs which are inclined to rub against each other amd emit occassional creaking sounds. Pounding song with mortar and three pestles
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
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