Koekoe (Partridge)
- Matumo Matsinyane, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Matumo Matsinyane , 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/10962/161863 , vital:40685 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0104-08
- Description: The performer was a middle-aged woman. De Aar is the name of a South African railway center. The Jew's harp is of the familiar pattern brought in the local trading store. Tune of the Jew's harp - Sekebeku.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Matumo Matsinyane , 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/10962/161863 , vital:40685 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0104-08
- Description: The performer was a middle-aged woman. De Aar is the name of a South African railway center. The Jew's harp is of the familiar pattern brought in the local trading store. Tune of the Jew's harp - Sekebeku.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Kongwana tshweu wee (Oh, the white cow)
- Lenpe Mongae and group of about 24 Hurutshe men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Lenpe Mongae and group of about 24 Hurutshe men , 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/10962/165632 , vital:41265 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0114-01
- Description: "Oh, the white cow! She will bring a very good price at the cattle sale!" Praise song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Lenpe Mongae and group of about 24 Hurutshe men , 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/10962/165632 , vital:41265 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0114-01
- Description: "Oh, the white cow! She will bring a very good price at the cattle sale!" Praise song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Konyane ga ga bo ke kae (Where is Konyane's home?)
- Group of about 30 women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: 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 Ramoutsa f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Lete
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165335 , vital:41234 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0112-06
- Description: People's dance with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: 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 Ramoutsa f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Lete
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165335 , vital:41234 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0112-06
- Description: People's dance with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Kunyete (Girls dresses)
- Authors: Jacquot Mokete , 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/10962/161117 , vital:40593 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0101-12
- Description: The player placed an empty condensed milk tin picked up off the ground nearby, over the free end of the harmonica, vibrating it to and from as far as his mouth position would allow, thus producing not only greater resonance to his own ear but a vibrato as well. Self delectative song, with harmonica.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Jacquot Mokete , 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/10962/161117 , vital:40593 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0101-12
- Description: The player placed an empty condensed milk tin picked up off the ground nearby, over the free end of the harmonica, vibrating it to and from as far as his mouth position would allow, thus producing not only greater resonance to his own ear but a vibrato as well. Self delectative song, with harmonica.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Lako (Lako, place name)
- Mokemane Mokemane and group of men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Mokemane Mokemane and 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/10962/162202 , vital:40819 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0106-03
- Description: "When you go to Lako leave your pin behind. The girl at Lako will pin your blanket for you. They wear green headscarves which become them." A large safety pin is used for pinning the ends of blankets. Lengae men's initiation song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Mokemane Mokemane and 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/10962/162202 , vital:40819 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0106-03
- Description: "When you go to Lako leave your pin behind. The girl at Lako will pin your blanket for you. They wear green headscarves which become them." A large safety pin is used for pinning the ends of blankets. Lengae men's initiation song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Le kae le watle (Where is the sea)
- Dorothy Kgosilentswe and four young girls, Hugh Tracey
- 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/10962/165020 , vital:41195 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0111-08
- Description: "Where is the sea? It is in Cape Town. We are growing up. How many are we? We are short." The girls danced forward, follow-my-leader's style and then backwards, crouching. Singing game.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- 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/10962/165020 , vital:41195 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0111-08
- Description: "Where is the sea? It is in Cape Town. We are growing up. How many are we? We are short." The girls danced forward, follow-my-leader's style and then backwards, crouching. Singing game.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Le reng oe? (What do you say)
- Lefu Rajane and a group of men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Lefu Rajane and a group of 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 Mokoroane f-lo
- Language: Tswana/Rolong
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162428 , vital:40930 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0107-07
- Description: "What do you say when the ox is wild? Ho! you are weeping. Look quickly, Motloheloa's child. Reply to Nkhooa. We had better keep quiet, people at Khoali's do not speak. Man does not make rain. Rain is made by God alone. I had better keep quiet. If I keep quiet I will shut the guests out. Mokorotlo riding song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Lefu Rajane and a group of 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 Mokoroane f-lo
- Language: Tswana/Rolong
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162428 , vital:40930 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0107-07
- Description: "What do you say when the ox is wild? Ho! you are weeping. Look quickly, Motloheloa's child. Reply to Nkhooa. We had better keep quiet, people at Khoali's do not speak. Man does not make rain. Rain is made by God alone. I had better keep quiet. If I keep quiet I will shut the guests out. Mokorotlo riding song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Leboko I
- a, b and c. Labims Keebine. d and e. Joseph Modisi Moiloa, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: a, b and c. Labims Keebine. d and e. Joseph Modisi Moiloa , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Dinokana f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165823 , vital:41285 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0115-06
- Description: At the time of recording this village was much divided on account of the political questions of the continuity of the Chieftainship. One acting Chief had been deposed and was living in Bechuanaland and another Chief was acting in his place. The speaker, who composed and read the praises of his elder brother, the present acting Chief, had been a teacher in their village for 38 years. Moiloa II was the original Chief after whom the reserve was named, about 1880 (died 1886). Ikalafeng succeeded hs grandfather Moiloa in 1887 and died in 1894. Pogiso II (Abram) the ex-Chief of the Moiloa Reserve, is still alive. Praise songs for a) Chief Moiloa II, b) Chief Ikalafeng, c) Chief Pogiso II, d) Chief Diutloiling wa Sebogodi. e) Chief Michael Bagatsu Moiloa.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: a, b and c. Labims Keebine. d and e. Joseph Modisi Moiloa , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Dinokana f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165823 , vital:41285 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0115-06
- Description: At the time of recording this village was much divided on account of the political questions of the continuity of the Chieftainship. One acting Chief had been deposed and was living in Bechuanaland and another Chief was acting in his place. The speaker, who composed and read the praises of his elder brother, the present acting Chief, had been a teacher in their village for 38 years. Moiloa II was the original Chief after whom the reserve was named, about 1880 (died 1886). Ikalafeng succeeded hs grandfather Moiloa in 1887 and died in 1894. Pogiso II (Abram) the ex-Chief of the Moiloa Reserve, is still alive. Praise songs for a) Chief Moiloa II, b) Chief Ikalafeng, c) Chief Pogiso II, d) Chief Diutloiling wa Sebogodi. e) Chief Michael Bagatsu Moiloa.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Leboko II
- a, b and c. Labims Keebine. d and e. Joseph Modisi Moiloa, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: a, b and c. Labims Keebine. d and e. Joseph Modisi Moiloa , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Dinokana f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165832 , vital:41286 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0115-07
- Description: At the time of recording this village was much divided on account of the political questions of the continuity of the Chieftainship. One acting Chief had been deposed and was living in Bechuanaland and another Chief was acting in his place. The speaker, who composed and read the praises of his elder brother, the present acting Chief, had been a teacher in their village for 38 years. Moiloa II was the original Chief after whom the reserve was named, about 1880 (died 1886). Ikalafeng succeeded hs grandfather Moiloa in 1887 and died in 1894. Pogiso II (Abram) the ex-Chief of the Moiloa Reserve, is still alive. Praise songs for a) Chief Moiloa II, b) Chief Ikalafeng, c) Chief Pogiso II, d) Chief Diutloiling wa Sebogodi. e) Chief Michael Bagatsu Moiloa.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: a, b and c. Labims Keebine. d and e. Joseph Modisi Moiloa , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Dinokana f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165832 , vital:41286 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0115-07
- Description: At the time of recording this village was much divided on account of the political questions of the continuity of the Chieftainship. One acting Chief had been deposed and was living in Bechuanaland and another Chief was acting in his place. The speaker, who composed and read the praises of his elder brother, the present acting Chief, had been a teacher in their village for 38 years. Moiloa II was the original Chief after whom the reserve was named, about 1880 (died 1886). Ikalafeng succeeded hs grandfather Moiloa in 1887 and died in 1894. Pogiso II (Abram) the ex-Chief of the Moiloa Reserve, is still alive. Praise songs for a) Chief Moiloa II, b) Chief Ikalafeng, c) Chief Pogiso II, d) Chief Diutloiling wa Sebogodi. e) Chief Michael Bagatsu Moiloa.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Leboko la ga Kgosi Mpolokang (Praises in honour of Chief Mpolokang)
- Ntshekang Modukanele. Witkleigat (Chief Lencoe), Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Ntshekang Modukanele. Witkleigat (Chief Lencoe) , 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/10962/165841 , vital:41287 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0115-08
- Description: "The cow cries at the path of Maroala. It passed through Swartfontein. It was paid for lobola for Norah. It was enjoyed by all." Chief Mpolokang was the present Chief's father. Leboko - praise verse.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Ntshekang Modukanele. Witkleigat (Chief Lencoe) , 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/10962/165841 , vital:41287 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0115-08
- Description: "The cow cries at the path of Maroala. It passed through Swartfontein. It was paid for lobola for Norah. It was enjoyed by all." Chief Mpolokang was the present Chief's father. Leboko - praise verse.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Lelnane la Rebe le tlhogo (The story of Rebe and the head)
- Gwendoline Kaitsane (Young girl aged 11 years), Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Gwendoline Kaitsane (Young girl aged 11 years) , 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/10962/166245 , vital:41342 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0117-05
- Description: There was a certain girl called Rebe, who had a mother who used to leave her children alone in the house. Now everytime she she was left alone, a head use to come and eat up all the food the mother had left for her daughter. One lay Rebe's father caught the head by hiding behind the door. He had an axe and he hit it and the head ran away. Now the rabbit met the head who had thin bits of bark covering its wounds. So the rabbit sang that he could smell the wounds on the head. After that the head was seen no more. Story.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Gwendoline Kaitsane (Young girl aged 11 years) , 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/10962/166245 , vital:41342 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0117-05
- Description: There was a certain girl called Rebe, who had a mother who used to leave her children alone in the house. Now everytime she she was left alone, a head use to come and eat up all the food the mother had left for her daughter. One lay Rebe's father caught the head by hiding behind the door. He had an axe and he hit it and the head ran away. Now the rabbit met the head who had thin bits of bark covering its wounds. So the rabbit sang that he could smell the wounds on the head. After that the head was seen no more. Story.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Lelwa retswang teng resentse (We come from the place where we have killed)
- Eight Kwena men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Eight Kwena men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Kwena (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Botswana Molepolole f-bs
- Language: Tswana/Kwena
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162817 , vital:40986 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0109-09
- Description: "We come from where we have killed. Oh, the greyhead! We-we! We praise our leader. We come from the place where we have killed. Once we killed the people of the Kalahari. We killed them and they killed us." According to the interpreter it appears that initiation songs among the Tswana follow a certin pattern and the same ones are sung by all the Tswana tribes, with local variations. Male initiation song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Eight Kwena men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Kwena (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Botswana Molepolole f-bs
- Language: Tswana/Kwena
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162817 , vital:40986 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0109-09
- Description: "We come from where we have killed. Oh, the greyhead! We-we! We praise our leader. We come from the place where we have killed. Once we killed the people of the Kalahari. We killed them and they killed us." According to the interpreter it appears that initiation songs among the Tswana follow a certin pattern and the same ones are sung by all the Tswana tribes, with local variations. Male initiation song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Lesang nca re a baka (Leave the dog alone)
- Ntnebolang Molebatsi, 4 men and 4 women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Ntnebolang Molebatsi, 4 men and 4 women , 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/10962/164993 , vital:41192 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0111-05
- Description: "Leave the dog alone, we are praising. We orphans, if collected would fill the Chief's kraal. I didn't lock the door last night and the dog ate up all my fat, all on account of your lovers." The last three lines refer to the fact that two girls were sharing the same room. One left the door open for her lovers to enter, and a dog got in and ate up all the other one's fat. Herdboy's song and step danie, with stamping of feet.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Ntnebolang Molebatsi, 4 men and 4 women , 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/10962/164993 , vital:41192 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0111-05
- Description: "Leave the dog alone, we are praising. We orphans, if collected would fill the Chief's kraal. I didn't lock the door last night and the dog ate up all my fat, all on account of your lovers." The last three lines refer to the fact that two girls were sharing the same room. One left the door open for her lovers to enter, and a dog got in and ate up all the other one's fat. Herdboy's song and step danie, with stamping of feet.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Lesole lea lema (The soilder is an indulgent man)
- Nkhethoa Leuta and Silas Khiba, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Nkhethoa Leuta and Silas Khiba , 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/10962/161272 , vital:40611 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0103-03
- Description: "The soilder, Mpoi's relative is a violent man. The cow which has been claimed by Malito custom is a soilder boy. It has happened in spite of the 'cousin' (relationship). We, Mpoi's relatives, are Christians. We have been given the staff of Christianity." The staff or rod is meant to indicate the badge or symbol of the professing person, in this case, his religious association. The Malito custom is such that a thing dropped or neglected can be claimed by another, like 'Snap' in the child's game. Mokorotlo songs to be sung on horseback.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Nkhethoa Leuta and Silas Khiba , 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/10962/161272 , vital:40611 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0103-03
- Description: "The soilder, Mpoi's relative is a violent man. The cow which has been claimed by Malito custom is a soilder boy. It has happened in spite of the 'cousin' (relationship). We, Mpoi's relatives, are Christians. We have been given the staff of Christianity." The staff or rod is meant to indicate the badge or symbol of the professing person, in this case, his religious association. The Malito custom is such that a thing dropped or neglected can be claimed by another, like 'Snap' in the child's game. Mokorotlo songs to be sung on horseback.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Lethisa (Uninitiated)
- Group of 15 Sotho girls, Hugh Tracey
- 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/10962/162277 , vital:40828 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0106-10
- Description: The singers were daubed entirely with white clay and were wearing traditional costume, leather skirts. rows of tubular grass girdles or, in some cases, girdles made of short lengths of reed strung together and grass masks shaped like screens. Two or three women wore deep fringes of reed over their leather skirts. "Ho, stop it! Ho, ho, what is that? She wishes to enter the initiation school. She is just a dog." Lelingoana women's initiation song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- 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/10962/162277 , vital:40828 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0106-10
- Description: The singers were daubed entirely with white clay and were wearing traditional costume, leather skirts. rows of tubular grass girdles or, in some cases, girdles made of short lengths of reed strung together and grass masks shaped like screens. Two or three women wore deep fringes of reed over their leather skirts. "Ho, stop it! Ho, ho, what is that? She wishes to enter the initiation school. She is just a dog." Lelingoana women's initiation song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Letsema la a phota (The group is threshing corn)
- Boys and girls from Mabe's Community school, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Boys and girls from Mabe's Community school , 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/10962/166324 , vital:41351 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0117-12
- Description: "Rasentsetsa's hair is so thick he looks like a bird. We are threshing corn. This is Rasentsetsa's band of threshers. But we do not see him here. We always work our hardest when the men are here. Threshing song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Boys and girls from Mabe's Community school , 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/10962/166324 , vital:41351 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0117-12
- Description: "Rasentsetsa's hair is so thick he looks like a bird. We are threshing corn. This is Rasentsetsa's band of threshers. But we do not see him here. We always work our hardest when the men are here. Threshing song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Libajele (They have eaten them)
- Makhooa Mosese and Sotho men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Makhooa Mosese and Sotho 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/10962/161992 , vital:40745 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0105-02
- Description: The use of the word 'Amen' is not to be taken as religious. Without knowing its meaning, they used it here to indicate the end of the song. "They have eaten them (people) and left nothing except their faces. Seeiso left his Chieftainship place and went to the outlaying villages. Amen!" Mokorotlo riding song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Makhooa Mosese and Sotho 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/10962/161992 , vital:40745 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0105-02
- Description: The use of the word 'Amen' is not to be taken as religious. Without knowing its meaning, they used it here to indicate the end of the song. "They have eaten them (people) and left nothing except their faces. Seeiso left his Chieftainship place and went to the outlaying villages. Amen!" Mokorotlo riding song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Likhomo (Cattle)
- Liphapang Mokopu and small group of men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Liphapang Mokopu and small group of men , 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/10962/161946 , vital:40694 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0104-15
- Description: "Ho! Cattle. Ho! Ea! Hee! This peace. We, of the Ntolo family, are Christians." Mokorotlo riding song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Liphapang Mokopu and small group of men , 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/10962/161946 , vital:40694 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0104-15
- Description: "Ho! Cattle. Ho! Ea! Hee! This peace. We, of the Ntolo family, are Christians." Mokorotlo riding song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Lithoko (Praises)
- Makopo Macheli and John Mahase, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Makopo Macheli and John Mahase , 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/10962/161213 , vital:40603 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0102-07
- Description: The first speaker spoke shortly his own personal praises. The second spoke the praises of the late Morena Tumaole Koali Masupha, husband of the present 'Regent'. These Lithoko were followed by Tlala performed by various men who dashed out leaping and exclaiming. In Basutoland several widows of various chiefs act as 'Chief' or 'Deputy' during the minority of their sons who will eventually become chief of the clan. This, they say, is unusual but was made necessary by the endless factions and jealousies perpetrated by the near relatives of the dead chief in the hope pf takin over the chieftainship illegally. Praise song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Makopo Macheli and John Mahase , 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/10962/161213 , vital:40603 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0102-07
- Description: The first speaker spoke shortly his own personal praises. The second spoke the praises of the late Morena Tumaole Koali Masupha, husband of the present 'Regent'. These Lithoko were followed by Tlala performed by various men who dashed out leaping and exclaiming. In Basutoland several widows of various chiefs act as 'Chief' or 'Deputy' during the minority of their sons who will eventually become chief of the clan. This, they say, is unusual but was made necessary by the endless factions and jealousies perpetrated by the near relatives of the dead chief in the hope pf takin over the chieftainship illegally. Praise song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Lithoko tsa hae (Praise for himself)
- Authors: James Mofokeng , 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/10962/161204 , vital:40602 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0102-06
- Description: These praises were personal and referred to the speaker and opened the divining procedure which follwed. The small group of diviners was composed of a man and two women all wearing theri traditional diviners costume and beads. The older woman wore a skin cap, the younger one's long dress was of cloth treated with red ochre and lightly embroidered and decorated with white beads. Praise song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: James Mofokeng , 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/10962/161204 , vital:40602 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0102-06
- Description: These praises were personal and referred to the speaker and opened the divining procedure which follwed. The small group of diviners was composed of a man and two women all wearing theri traditional diviners costume and beads. The older woman wore a skin cap, the younger one's long dress was of cloth treated with red ochre and lightly embroidered and decorated with white beads. Praise song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959