O-o Mashego

Title: O-o Mashego
Creator: Group of 10 young Pedi initiates (girls)
Creator: Four Pedi women
Creator: Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Africa
Subject: Pedi (African people)
Subject: Folk music--South Africa
Subject: Field recordings
Subject: Africa, Sub-Saharan
Subject: Africa South Africa Bushbuck Ridge f-sa
Date Issued: 1963
Date: 1963
Type: sound recordings
Type: field recordings
Type: sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/189132
Identifier: vital:44819
Identifier: International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Identifier: TR195-05
Description: Sung by the girls after the initiation ceremonies are over. They dress up in skins and wear small mirrors and go about among the houses and people, dancing and asking for presents. The initiation school lasts for two months and follows much the same lines as those of the Tswana. Many young Africans from Kenya southwards use metal whistles for their dances, blowing them continously as in this item; the result is deafening to the audience but apparently most enjoyable to the young who seem to be impervious to the noise. "Oh-oh Mashego has won. He has won by driving the wizards away." Three girls post-initiation song with 2 drums, leg rattles and whistles
Format: mp3
Format: 7" Reel
Format: 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
Format: Studer B67 Recorder
Format: Sound Forge V.6
Format: 00:01:20
Publisher: International Library of African Music
Language: Pedi
Rights: International Library of African Music
Rights: Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike" License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/)

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