Mamarutla
- Authors: Dingalo and group of young boys and girls , 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/10962/165678 , vital:41270 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0114-06
- Description: This song os sung with the accompanying dance, in order to ask the Chief's pernission to go to the initiation school. It seems the young would-be initiates must go to the Chief's house and dance and sing the whole night through. The leader of this group was the Chief's cousin. The boys dance, whilst the girls stand in a row, singing and clapping. The boys all carried long thin wands in their hands and were wearing short loin cloths and leg rattles made of the nests of a variety of wasp which resemble the cacoons of the bag-worm, though somewhat larger. The girls wore short skirts. Both boys and girls were between 15 and 16 years of age. Pre-initiation dance song with leg rattles - "Mathlao".
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- Date Issued: 1959
Mammalo Sebolelo
- Authors: Lesoli Maboka and large group of young 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/10962/161280 , vital:40612 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0103-04
- Description: "You don't speak about a boy with an onion headdress. I don't speak about our uninitiated girls. I don't speak about earings that become me nor about your buying earings or bungles." Lengae men's initiation song.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Mamoko, mamoko, matlabama iye (Clouds, clouds, low clouds, iye)
- Authors: Tietse Modisane and group of about 30 women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Motswedi f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165574 , vital:41258 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0113-07
- Description: "Clouds, clouds, low clouds, iys, they are thundering." The Western Transvaal has inadequate rainfall in many places as low as 15 to 18 inches a year, gradually becoming reduced towards the West and the Kalahari Desert where recently in one region no rain at all has fallen for five years. This accounts for the numerous rain songs to be found among the Tswana tribes who have good cause for anxiety for their crops each year. No rain songs are sung in high rainfall areas. The praise lines or verses are set lines, not impromptu. The words are both archaic and poetic used only for Leboko. The clapping is ritual, but it is always correct to clap the hands when asking for something. The Moroka or rainmaker was the officiant in a rain-making ceremony. Rain song, with clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Mamosi oa Theoloa ke mang? (Who will bring Mamosi down?
- Authors: Mapheelo Maklelebe and large group of Sotho women , 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/10962/161349 , vital:40619 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0103-08
- Description: "Who will bring Mamosi down? The 'municipality' is the wizard of the whites. He has brought the railway train into 'Naesifili'. At my home at Majara Leshoboro's place. Smoke drifts far away out in the veld. I have no Chief, I am ruled by a woman. Mother Mantsala, give me food. When horses race for prizes, yours runs for nothing. My family is disappointed with Mateseliso. It does not like people who cover their heads with cloth. I have not come here to see you, I have come to condole with you." The 'Municipality', they explained, is looked upon as a single person, a person of wealth who can do things rather like the Government. Mokibo women's kneeling dances, with clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Mampharoane (Gecko Lizard)
- 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/10962/161805 , vital:40678 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0104-03
- Description: "Lizard soften the hide (for making skin blankets). Mother come and see the thing that has been biting me. I have been bitten by fleas and bed-bugs. This person who is grinding is Malikhetla living in the village of Motemekoane," This grinding song is taken from a local initiation song. Grinding 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
Mangoane phutholla kobo (Stretch out the blanket, Aunt)
- Authors: not defined , 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/10962/161303 , vital:40614 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0103-06
- Description: "Aunt, stretch out the blanket. There are two of us. Stretch out the blanket, I will be coming, I am going out to smoke. When I leave here, going away. Montsala remain here and look after my children. Look after Mamotolo and Malerato and Toma. Toma, look after these children of mine particulary Mamotolo and Malerato. I looks as if I will be going away. I feel I am going. I really feel I will be crossing the river." 'To cross the river' in Sesotho means "I will be going to the Union of South Africa" with reference to the Calendon river which forms part of the border between the two countries. Women's party song, with clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Manong a kwa molapo o Tlung (The vultures at the spring called Tlung no longer need carrion, they are full.
- Authors: Abel Mabe , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Rustenburg f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Kgatla
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166369 , vital:41356 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0117-18
- Description: Abel Mabe is the Uncle of Chief Mabe. Praise verse.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Maolo di phepa (Now we are clean)
- Authors: Keilediwe Modise and group of middle-aged and elderly 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/10962/162754 , vital:40979 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0109-02
- Description: "Clay, Maolo! Now we are clean, for we have eaten clay." Men's initiation song.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Maomosa re kaeleng (You women who cannot cook)
- Authors: Motsekhumo Tiro and group of elderly 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/10962/162524 , vital:40943 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0108-06
- Description: "You women who cannot cook, tell us where the noise is." The meaning is that where there is noise, there may be a party and where there is a party there is good cheer. Introduced by each pipe played in turn around the circle of old men. Most of the pipes were made of reed. The pipes must be immersed in water before playing or they will not sound. They were very old pipes and the tuning was clearly awry, the old players being unable to tune them accurately. Pipe dance with Dithloko end-blown reeds
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- Date Issued: 1959
Marimbo
- Authors: George Modiegnyana and group of young men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Zeerust f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165895 , vital:41293 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0115-14
- Description: Sung at a wedding in honour of both bride and bridegroom. The singers had just come back from initiation school and huddled together looking very shy. The solo part gives indications of foreign influence. A cicada was singing in the tree under which the singers were grouped. Wedding song.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Marola Bila Kile
- Authors: Richard Majafe , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Zeerust f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165868 , vital:41290 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0115-11
- Description: Four boys initiation song.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Marumo (Spears)
- Authors: Makopo Macheli and group of about 12 men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Berea f-lo
- Language: Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161148 , vital:40596 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0102-01
- Description: In the Lithoko following the song the speaker used the phrase: "Whe spring kisses the summer" a typical poetic phrase, they say characteristic of Lithoko praises. This Mokorotlo was accompanied by a slow and stately stamping dance, raising the legs slowly upwards, then with a bend of the knee they bring the foot back under the body and stamp. Mokorotlo riding song.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Masilo tswalela kgoro (Masilo close the gate)
- 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/10962/166047 , vital:41311 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0116-14
- Description: "Masilo, close the gate. Close our father's gate. I say, 'Phoroko'" The word 'Phoroko' has a dual meaning to "close the gate" in the sense of "goodbye". Farewell song with metal bucket used as a drum.
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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
Mmamathlwane (The Bat)
- Authors: Large group of Hurutshe women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Motswedi f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165529 , vital:41253 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0113-02
- Description: "Bat, it is not impossible for it to flutter around." This song may be sung on any party occassion, but is more particularly associated with the girls' return from initiation school. Song for girls returning from initiation, with clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Mme o leleka baeng (Mother drives away the visitors for me)
- Authors: Levi Modisane and group of men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Rustenburg f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Kgatla
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166313 , vital:41350 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0117-12
- Description: "Mother drives away the visitors for me. I am no longer visiting," Threshing song.
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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.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Mocholoko (The novice)
- Authors: Mokoto Tsoeliane and group of Koali men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Berea f-lo
- Language: Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161177 , vital:40599 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0102-03
- Description: The Mohobelo dance is most typical of all Sotho dances and is notable for its sinous striding actions which are accompanied by rhythmic hissing and by stamping. The dance songs are performed by the spectators and not the dancers. There are frequently two or three movements or routines in a Mohobelo, a slow entry and dance, follwed by a fast leaping movement and frequently by a third slow routine. Each is given a local mane, often the name of the district of origin. Mohobelo men's dance with stamping.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Modumo o u dumang kwa botshaka (The noise heard in the north)
- Authors: Sinna Ramorula , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Rustenburg f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Kgatla
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166333 , vital:41352 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0117-14
- Description: Praise for Chief Mulife on his return from the second world war. Praise verse.
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- Date Issued: 1959