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"Lefatse le tletse meea e mebe." (Take this letter home.)

- Two diviners (Izangoma) and a group of pupils (Performers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

"Lefatse le tletse meea e mebe." (The country is full of evil spirits)

- Two diviners (Izangoma) and a group of pupils (Performers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

"Litsebe nka lengolo y ec hae." (Take this letter home)

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

Ahe likalakati

- Group of Sotho women, Hugh Tracey

Ea ema nthodona matsetsela

- Two diviners (Izangoma) and a group of pupils (Performers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Two diviners (Izangoma) and a group of pupils (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Sotho , Divination , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
  • Language: Southern Sotho
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134250 , vital:37107 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR018-11
  • Description: This Izangoma and his wife were both dressed in scarlet, with skirts lavishly sewn with beads and many bead and "lucky seed" necklaces and bangles and leggings. Bead bands and strands on the head. The learner-izangomaare distinguished by a string of white beads round their heads.The Izangoma were supposed to be finding and throwing a "spirit" out of someone who had ben bewitched. At the end of the recording, one member of the audience remarked:- "There is no tokolosh (imp) here." Much laughter. The words were partly in Zulu, although the performers were actually Sotho.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Ha setimela se tsamaea (While the train goes)

- Lesholu Molai, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Lesholu Molai , 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/10962/151601 , vital:39146 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-15
  • Description: The player said he had made his Sitolotolo only that day, so it had not had time to dry out and resonate the sound properly. Consequently the overtones resonated in the month were relatively weak. Self-delectative song with Sitolotolo mouth bow. (Tube with 2 end sections of bow-braced).
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Haopala pitsi

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

He re bamang

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

Hee ka bale (There are the horsemen, there they are!)

- Group of Sotho men, Hugh Tracey

Hiho

- 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/10962/134205 , vital:37099 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR018-06
  • Description: This time the mouse-hunting somg was performed by the young hunters themselves. It appears they hunt 2 types of field mouse, one plain, the other stripped. The first song "Hiho" was for the plain rats, the second "Khoana" says: "We are driving the striped rats along the banks towards our friends who are waiting for them."
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Khajoane (The eagle)

- Sotho men and women, Hugh Tracey

Khajoane (The mountain eagle)

- 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/10962/151610 , vital:39147 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-16
  • 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

Khoana

- 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/10962/134210 , vital:37100 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR018-07
  • Description: This time the mouse-hunting somg was performed by the young hunters themselves. It appears they hunt 2 types of field mouse, one plain, the other stripped. The first song "Hiho" was for the plain rats, the second "Khoana" says: "We are driving the striped rats along the banks towards our friends who are waiting for them."
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Khokong

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

Krubo

- 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/10962/151300 , vital:39049 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-02
  • Description: "When we were going to Swendlana, the watchers said: 'attach', and the whole world burst." The translation of this item, as given on the spot, is far from clear and needs further elucidation. The song was sung, they say, during the last century when the Hlangwini people came down from Zululand and ousted the Sotho. Ihubo old fighting song.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Lelingoana

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

Lengae

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

Lithoko tsa Morena Neo Sibi

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

Malomile

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

Mamosi

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

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