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Bolelela Ramonogeng (Tell Ramonogeng we are going home)

- Silas Kgaragoba, Hugh Tracey

Bolelela Ramonogeng (Tell Ramonogeng)

- Mamideo Motlokwa and 22 men and women, Hugh Tracey

Dumedisa Moeng

- Mamidse Motlokwa and 22 men, Hugh Tracey

Eh, dumedisa moeng (Greetings to the visitor)

- Mokgele Mokgejane and group of men and women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Mokgele Mokgejane 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 Motswedi f-sa
  • Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165556 , vital:41256 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0113-05
  • Description: "Greetings to the visitors, good day to you, visitors. Tell us where you come from." This song of greetings was followed by a series of praises, spoken by different men, in honour of their own village, Motswedi, which is a pleasantly located village lying on the slopes of a hill which forms a headland jutting out above the plain. This song was prefaced by Chief Lucas Mangape saying "Pula" and everyone responding "Pula" - "Rain", which is a Tswana greeting in this low rainfall region. Greeting song with praises.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Eh, Pula aene, e le mogogo (Let it rain)

- Tietse Modisane and group of about 30 women, Hugh Tracey

  • 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/10962/165565 , vital:41257 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0113-06
  • Description: "Let it rain! Let it rain so that it washes all the rubbish away with its waters!" 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

Ga nna ke tshome (I cannot speak a European language)

- Group of men, Hugh Tracey

Kea, gae kea goseka (I am going home)

- Mokgele Mokgejane and group of 24 Hurutshe men; Praiser: Steps Tolo, Hugh Tracey

Kgokong (If it dies)

- Mosaila Mokgothu and Hurutshe men, Hugh Tracey

Kgongana tshewa (Must I pay a beast in order to marry you?)

- Momitse Mutokwa and 18 men, Hugh Tracey

Klusi Malorato tlaa o bone (Chief Lencoe's horses)

- Group of small children, boys and girls, Hugh Tracey

Kongwana tshweu wee (Oh, the white cow)

- Lenpe Mongae and group of about 24 Hurutshe men, Hugh Tracey

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.
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  • 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.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Leboko la ga Kgosi Mpolokang (Praises in honour of Chief Mpolokang)

- Ntshekang Modukanele. Witkleigat (Chief Lencoe), Hugh Tracey

Magawalela (People of Mapula)

- Odirile Masumoloa and 14 men, Hugh Tracey

Maipetleko

- Dingalo and group of young boys and girls, Hugh Tracey

  • 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/10962/165683 , vital:41271 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0114-07
  • 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

Mamarutla

- Dingalo and group of young boys and girls, Hugh Tracey

  • 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

Mamoko, mamoko, matlabama iye (Clouds, clouds, low clouds, iye)

- Tietse Modisane and group of about 30 women, Hugh Tracey

  • 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.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1959

Marimbo

- George Modiegnyana and group of young men, Hugh Tracey

Marola Bila Kile

- Richard Majafe, Hugh Tracey

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