He re bamang
- 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/10962/134232 , vital:37103 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR018-09
- Description: These were praises to the Bahlakoana men who were fighting against the Zulu of Mzilikazi-the one who eventually went north from the Ndebele people of Rhodesia.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- 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/10962/134232 , vital:37103 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR018-09
- Description: These were praises to the Bahlakoana men who were fighting against the Zulu of Mzilikazi-the one who eventually went north from the Ndebele people of Rhodesia.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Hee ka bale (There are the horsemen, there they are!)
- Group of Sotho men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of Sotho 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/10962/151502 , vital:39136 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-07
- Description: Chief Sibi said this song was sung when riding. But it is also sometimes used as a dance song. It appears the horses know and enjoy the song and they maintain, go in time to it. Song for riding horses.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of Sotho 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/10962/151502 , vital:39136 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-07
- Description: Chief Sibi said this song was sung when riding. But it is also sometimes used as a dance song. It appears the horses know and enjoy the song and they maintain, go in time to it. Song for riding horses.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
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."
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- 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."
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Khajoane (The eagle)
- 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/10962/151550 , vital:39141 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-10
- Description: "Don't bother me, it is getting late and I want to finish my grinding." Agricultural and domestic work song for hoeing.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- 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/10962/151550 , vital:39141 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-10
- Description: "Don't bother me, it is getting late and I want to finish my grinding." Agricultural and domestic work song for hoeing.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Khajoane (The mountain eagle)
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- 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."
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- 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."
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Khokong
- Group of Sotho men (Perfomers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of Sotho men (Perfomers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Sotho , Work songs , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134132 , vital:37077 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR018-02
- Description: They said that the breast skin of the buffalo is the hardest of all to bray and takes much time and labour.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of Sotho men (Perfomers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Sotho , Work songs , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134132 , vital:37077 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR018-02
- Description: They said that the breast skin of the buffalo is the hardest of all to bray and takes much time and labour.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
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
- 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
- Authors: Composer not specified , Group of Sotho men (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/10962/133970 , vital:37055 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR016-04
- Description: Preparation song for circumcision
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Composer not specified , Group of Sotho men (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/10962/133970 , vital:37055 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR016-04
- Description: Preparation song for circumcision
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Lengae
- Composer not specified, Group of Sotho men (Performers), Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Composer not specified , Group of Sotho men (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/10962/134010 , vital:37059 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR016-08
- Description: Post-circumcision song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Composer not specified , Group of Sotho men (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/10962/134010 , vital:37059 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR016-08
- Description: Post-circumcision song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
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
- 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
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
- 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
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
- 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
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
- 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
Mokhoroane (The dove)
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
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
- 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
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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
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
- 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
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
- 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