"Kulilandile." (Crying)
- Authors: M. Kunda (Composer) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
- Language: Lala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134286 , vital:37115 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0019-01
- Description: "Wana Mtale, I am crying for my wife whom I have lost. She has gone away and not returned."
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
"Lefatse le tletse meea e mebe." (Take this letter home.)
- 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/10962/134259 , vital:37108 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR018-12
- Description: This song is sung when the initiates are coming back from their three months' initiation period in the mountains.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
"Lefatse le tletse meea e mebe." (The country is full of evil spirits)
- 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/10962/134268 , vital:37109 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR018-12
- Description: The Izangoma were supposed to be finding and throwing a "spirit" out of someone who had been 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 perfomers were actually Sotho.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
"Litsebe nka lengolo y ec hae." (Take this letter home)
- Authors: Group of Sotho men (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Sotho , Circumcision , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134277 , vital:37111 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR018-13
- Description: This song is sung when the initiates are coming back from their three month's initiation period in the mountains.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ea ema nthodona matsetsela
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Haopala pitsi
- 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/10962/134127 , vital:37076 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR018-01
- Description: The song compares the striped colourings of a certain caterpillar with those of a zebra.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
He re bamang
- 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
Hiho
- 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
Khoana
- 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
- 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
Lelingoana
- 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
- 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
- Authors: Composer not specified , Sam Mosheshwe and another (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Speeches, addresses, etc., African , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133993 , vital:37058 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR016-07
- Description: 2 Lithoko praises
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Lithoko
- Authors: Composer not specified , Sam Mosheshwe and another (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Speeches, addresses, etc., African , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133988 , vital:37057 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR016-06
- Description: 2 Lithoko praises
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Lithoko
- Authors: Composer not specified , Sam Mosheshwe and another (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Speeches, addresses, etc., African , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133983 , vital:37056 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR016-05
- Description: 2 Lithoko praises
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Lithoko tsa Morena Neo Sibi
- 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
- 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
- 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
Mokorotlo with Lithoko
- Authors: Composer not specified , Group of Sotho men (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folklore , Speeches, addresses, etc., African , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133956 , vital:37053 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR016-02
- Description: Praise chant and speeches
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Pikoko
- 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