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Ena khotso (This peace)

- Mpara Masienyabe abd large group of men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Mpara Masienyabe abd large group of men , 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/10962/162322 , vital:40833 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0106-15
  • Description: "The girl will marry into the Chief's family. This peace! The cows produce nice milk. We, friends of Lesenyebo's brother, Tau, we, of Phakoe's family, speak well. Mother witches, you will not allow us, your aprons (front covers). My child will soon marry into the Chief's family, my Moliehi! There is fighting where it is where there is no fighting. Even at Maseru there is fighting. Initiation song with hand clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Ketekete ('Ketekete' the noise made by a bell)

- Lefu Rajane and a group of men, Hugh Tracey

Khotso (peace)

- Mpara Mosienyane and large group of men, Hugh Tracey

Khutsanyana (An orphan)

- 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/10962/162286 , 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

Le reng oe? (What do you say)

- Lefu Rajane and a group of men, Hugh Tracey

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.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Mampho thiba lisabole (Mampho, ward off the spears)

- Mosinoa Peter, with group of 14 dancers and large group of singers, Hugh Tracey

Ntoeng (To the war)

- Mpara Masienyane and large group of men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Mpara Masienyane 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 Mokoroane f-lo
  • Language: Sotho
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162182 , vital:40817 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0106-01
  • Description: This Lengae is sung when boys are going up to the initiation school. "Maluke's husband captured Seleke, a cow for which there had been much fighting. A question is asked about Maphaleng's grave. 'Is it where we have been fighting? Who do you say should take me to war? I am afraid when men go out armed.' Men, you do not make sufficient sound. Is it because of all that beard? Lengae men's initiation song.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Sekhobe (the name of a Chief)

- Maliketso Rasehoja and 12 Sotho women, Hugh Tracey

Tau lia rora (Lions roar)

- Group of 15 Sotho girl initiates, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of 15 Sotho girl initiates , 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/10962/162256 , vital:40827 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0106-09
  • Description: The singers sat in a close circle on the ground with one in the middle. The grass or masks decorated with fringes of beads or woollen balls. Patterns were worked in the clay daubed on their legs. The singers made their exit in single file to dance in a circle some distance away. They carried long forked wands. "Far down, Lions are roaring. What are they eating that causes them to roar so? They eat small insects. The owner of the grey horse gallops it towards Taung. The Tembu woman who has run away must be brought back to the place where the women are. The song is finished. The song of your companions." Lelingoana women's initiation song.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Terene ea malahla (The train)

- Sehloho, Hugh Tracey

Thatholla (Unwind)

- Mpara Mosienyane and large group of men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Mpara Mosienyane and large 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/10962/162446 , vital:40933 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0107-09
  • Description: "Where does the chief want us to go today? To leave in the evening when it is cold. With a drizzle of rain like a mist. With all the lads afraid of mounting their horses. Our saddles will be wet, and our trousers creased. By Morake's child, I will curse somebody! We of the Tau family, are one-handed. We receive food with it and feel pleased. We kill our own monkey's at Matsau-Tsau. Where did they see him? They saw him at the sugarcane fields. Why does he say he wants Basotho? He says he wants a Basotho blanket. Jump on my back and away we go. Fathers, let us go." Riding song.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1959
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