Ea Tuka (It burns)
- Authors: Malefetsane Mosese and large group of men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Maseru f-lo
- Language: Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162139 , vital:40763 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0105-12
- Description: "It is burning! An island is burning! Thaba Bosiu is burning! At the pass there are flames. Thaba Bosiu is burning. You will burn and burst into flames, you witches. You have left the son of God out on the veld. You will have to go back and fetch him. The island is burning!" The song refers to the wild storm which raged around the mountain Thaba Bosiu in 1957 which blew away the roof of a Church and did much damage to homes in the region. Although the song is an initiation song, it is couched in essentially Christian trems. Lengae men's initiation song.
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- Date Issued: 1959
He rea nyadiwa (We are despised)
- Authors: Serakalala Abotseng and group of 35 men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Ngwaketse (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Botswana Kanye f-bs
- Language: Tswana/Ngwaketse
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162591 , vital:40953 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0108-12
- Description: "We are despised although we are despised. Were are the bullets fired when cattle are captured. Makau wee!" "Makau wee!" is a regimental shout. The official praise is known as Mmoki. Sung when returning from a lion hunt. The following Maboko were spoken in honour of Chief Bathoen II, the present Chief Magogodi Mmolaeatshephe (the man who kills a serpent), spoke the Chief's praises. Hunting song
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- Date Issued: 1959
Ba tsetse ka likepe
- Authors: Jane Mosese and large group of men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Maseru f-lo
- Language: Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162115 , vital:40760 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0105-10
- Description: "When you want to marry, choose a wife for yourself. Don't blame anybody for choosing one for you. They refuse to cross the Vaal river." Mohobelo dance song with stamping of feet.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Tlotlang Kgosi (Honour the great Chief)
- Authors: Lentswe Male and 20 Kgatla men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Saulspoort f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Kgatla
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165987 , vital:41304 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0116-08
- Description: "Honour the great Chief, men! Tribes are serious. Men! Honour the great Chief, men! When tribes are serious." Praise song.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Mampho thiba lisabole (Mampho, ward off the spears)
- Authors: Mosinoa Peter, with group of 14 dancers and large group of singers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Folk songs, Tswana , Sotho-Tswana languages , Tswana (African people) , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Mokoroane f-lo
- Language: Tswana/Rolong
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162470 , vital:40935 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0107-11
- Description: "Ward off the spear thruts, Tsoana, stop him, let him remain to help you hoe. Mannini is a flying machine, she flies to Maseru. Listen to the women at Likhoele ululating. Siloe, the pointed mountain. The Mokhothu girls are cruel. I am going to look at the map at Matsieng. People at Maseru wear blankets of the same colour." Men's dance with stamping of feet and hissing.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Tshetlha di kae (Where are the tawny ones)
- Authors: School girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Ngwaketse (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Botswana Kanye f-bs
- Language: Tswana/Ngwaketse
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162560 , vital:40947 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0108-10
- Description: "Where are the tawny ones, where are the animals standing? The gemsbok, where are they standing? They are standing in the veld." The sound of thunder can be heard in the distance during this recording, the first storm of the season. Work song.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Tlalerwa re Humanega (Improverished by the wild dog)
- Authors: Lentswe Male and 20 Kgatla men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Saulspoort f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Kgatla
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166005 , vital:41306 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0116-10
- Description: "The wild dogs will make us poor. Poverty from the wild dogs, you men!" There are no wild dogs left in the district. The reference in this case is to the prowess of the hunters themselves. The leopard are plentiful in the Pilansberg hill where they eat goats and baboons. Hunting song.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Mora Motlole (Motlole's son)
- Authors: Mahlapane Qoalike and group of women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Tebang f-lo
- Language: Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161937 , vital:40693 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0104-14
- Description: "Son of Matlole I am a girl who does not like (not fall in love with) uncouth people. Her people's cattle will all die. Goats are all killed by brack deposits. I want ti listen to what my heart tells me and think it over." Mokhibo women's knee dance with clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Ndiribe m'mbale (I have no neighbour)
- Authors: Boys of Dedza Secondary School , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Ngoni (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dedza, Ncheu District, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Ngoni
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154929 , vital:39794 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR084-14
- Description: The song refers to a court case taken by the chief of the village. "I have no neighbour to rescue me at the court. Those without witnesses stay behind. Ae aia." Ngoma dance.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Kgosi boa-a Kegakilwe bakgosi boa (Chief Kegakilwe, the chieftainship is leaving us)
- Authors: Dintsa Marumolo and about 60 young men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Folk songs, Tswana , Sotho-Tswana languages , Tswana (African people) , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Tshidilamolomo f-lo
- Language: Tswana/Rolong
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162392 , vital:40926 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0107-03
- Description: A most interesting song which may well reflect something of the perplexity of the Tswana who have failed as yet to adjust themselves to the 20th century. "Chief Kegakilwe, the chieftainship is leaving us. Oh, we are afraid of the Europeans. We are afraid of their language. The young men all, all are afraid of the Europeans. Oh! where shall we escape to?" Male initiation song.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Monnamogolo (Old man baboon)
- Authors: Dorothy Kgosilentswe and four young girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Disaneng f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Tlharo
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165011 , vital:41194 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0111-07
- Description: "Have you bewitched me, that you haunt me like this. Old baboon man? Ruthu, Ruthu," Hopping game, girls went backwards and forwards in a circle holding alternately the right and left foot. Singing game.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Udandani makulata
- Authors: Fainos Gasa , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Ngoni (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dedza and Chewa District, Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Ngoni
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154883 , vital:39789 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR084-09
- Description: Scale: 300, 324, 352, 388, 416, 440, 464 vs. This scale seems to be an arbitrary one, the progressive intervals in cents being: 133, 144, 168, 121, 97 and 92. The words have little meaning to anyone but the singer himself. Self delectative song with Bangwe board Zither.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Kerefisi
- Authors: Taba Ramothobi and large group of men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Maseru f-lo
- Language: Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161259 , vital:40610 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0103-02
- Description: This song refers to the late Paramount Chief Griffiths Lerotholi who was the father-in-law of Mantsebo, the present female regent of the Sotho people (1959). The words are highly poetic, difficult to translate. " Griffiths - 'Griff' of Lerotholi, Griffiths, the promiscous, piercer of women, water snake of Mokhachane (Moshoeshoe's fater). Civet cat, crocodile, one-eyed snake. Rasenqu (Father of the Orange river, the Senqu). You should prosper!" Mokorotlo songs to be sung on horseback.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Matichere le go tshwana diketlele (Teachers and the way they hold their teapots)
- Authors: Jemina Pheha and 24 women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Saulspoort f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Kgatla
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166038 , vital:41310 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0116-13
- Description: "I have met Maloka. They have come to the valley of Marape. Teachers and the way they hold their teapots and their ties. They have run away from us." The Chief seemed to think this song was meant to be satirical with its allusion to teachers. Party song with metal bucket used as a drum.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Re tswa kwa Tlhabane (We come from Rustenburg)
- Authors: J. D. Tsimele (girl teacher) and young girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Disaneng f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Tlharo
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165219 , vital:41219 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0111-10
- Description: "We come from Tlhabana (Rusternburg). We sell goods. Do you want to buy them? Do you want to bargain for them?" (Girls say to the baby) "Keep quiet, darling, who is going to nurse you? Your mother is stingy, she is too mean to give you a nurse." (Mother says) "Sister, what are you doing? Why don't you comfort the child? Quiet, quiet baby! Quiet, quiet, son of my beloved." This amusing little game began with the girls crouching in a circle, singing and beating the ground with their hands. Then one of them outside the circle pretended to cry like a baby, and another girl put her on her back and began to sing to quiet her. Finally, another girl, pretending to be mother, took the child and sang a lullaby to her. Children's game and sketch.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Ha Molelle (Molelle's place)
- Authors: Malebaka Moroke , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Maseru f-lo
- Language: Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161792 , vital:40677 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0104-02
- Description: "Far, far away, at Molelle's place. Where is the train going? He has been away at the mines too long now. I, poor child, always say that I have lost my relatives and have nobody to tell me what to tell me what to do. You, Nohela women, you do not give me sufficient support. I speak rudely in the presence of other people." Grinding song
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- Date Issued: 1959
Pududu we-e (Old one)
- Authors: Group of 70 men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Mochudi f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Kgatla
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166209 , vital:41338 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0117-01
- Description: "Grey ox-grey home. There at the place we have come from, we have destroyed. The heart of the enemy, grey home, we have slaughtered for the birds of prey. The ox of the enemy, they have destroyed us and we also have destroyed them. Men, we are people who have spilt blood on the grass. We are the blood spilt on the grass-Grey home. The ox of the enemy, we are those whose blood is spilt everywhere upon the earth. Brindled one, with a blackback, beast of the enemy." The song was introduced by the Chief, Murusi Pilane. Regimental song.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Xhosa I (Saturday is a lonely day)
- 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.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Khutsanyana (An orphan)
- Authors: Group of 15 Sotho girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Mokoroane f-lo
- Language: Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162286 , vital:40829 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0106-11
- Description: "I want to write to my brother, Lethula, to come and see this cruel act perpetrated on his mother's child who has gone round Kolo (mountain) five times looking for the women's charm. She has seen it today. Women are hard hearted, they will not initiate a decent person. They initiate orphans. An orphan who has lost her mother. Whom death has imbued with courage. Losing one's parent is painful. I should have had an uncle who would have given me a goat to give to the waterman. To please the waterman so that he would return to the water." The "waterman" is a water sprite. Lelingoana women's initiation song with slapping hands on leather skirts.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Mmemogolo golo gana kobo (My grandmother has no blanket)
- Authors: Group of 12 men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Ramoutsa f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Lete
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165304 , vital:41231 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0112-03
- Description: Male initiation song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959