- Title
- Kgomo tsa ga Mme (The cattle of my mother)
- Creator
- Korabo Morapane and large group of men and women
- Creator
- Hugh Tracey
- Subject
- Folk songs, Tswana
- Subject
- Tswana (African people)
- Subject
- Ngwaketse (African people)
- Subject
- Folk music
- Subject
- Field recordings
- Subject
- Africa, Sub-Saharan
- Subject
- Africa Botswana Kanye f-bs
- Date Issued
- 1959
- Date
- 1959
- Type
- sound recordings
- Type
- field recordings
- Type
- sound recording-musical
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162781
- Identifier
- vital:40982
- Identifier
- International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
- Identifier
- TR0109-05
- Description
- "My mother's cattle. My mother who is the mother of rain. The cattle of a dark young woman. Where are these droves of cattle going to? They are going to pray fro rain." Here, by poetic imagery, the cattle symbolise clouds. Rain clouds are dark, hence the 'dark woman'. The very poetic words of this song in which the clouds are likened to cattle, imply the complete dependence of both the Tswana people and their flocks and herds on rain. Rain song.
- Format
- mp3
- Format
- 7" Reel
- Format
- 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
- Format
- Studer B67 Recorder
- Format
- Sound Forge V.6
- Format
- 00:01:52
- Publisher
- International Library of African Music
- Language
- Tswana/Ngwaketse
- Rights
- International Library of African Music
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Ceative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike" License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/)
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