Chikangaide (The bird)
- Authors: Young police , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Ngoni (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Malawi Poilce Headquaters, Zomba, Ncheu District, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Ngoni
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154956 , vital:39797 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR084-17
- Description: Once there were some children who took their mother's clothes and gave them to a bird, and the bird started singing and said, "The children were playing and took their mother's clothes and gave them to me knowing nothing because I am only a bird from the bush." The father came and waited for the bird to kill it, but hearing the bird singing so prettily he forgot his anger and in fact went anf gave the bird still more clothes. This is a variation of the old theme of the enchantment of music. It perhaps does not indicate an aeshetic pleasure in the natural song of the blind but rather in the words of the song which it is supposed to have sung. Nthano story song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Young police , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Ngoni (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Malawi Poilce Headquaters, Zomba, Ncheu District, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Ngoni
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154956 , vital:39797 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR084-17
- Description: Once there were some children who took their mother's clothes and gave them to a bird, and the bird started singing and said, "The children were playing and took their mother's clothes and gave them to me knowing nothing because I am only a bird from the bush." The father came and waited for the bird to kill it, but hearing the bird singing so prettily he forgot his anger and in fact went anf gave the bird still more clothes. This is a variation of the old theme of the enchantment of music. It perhaps does not indicate an aeshetic pleasure in the natural song of the blind but rather in the words of the song which it is supposed to have sung. Nthano story song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Etso ga ke batle e ejwa (I don't want to give my cow)
- Group of Lete men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of Lete men , 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/10962/165317 , vital:41232 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0112-04
- Description: "This dark cow of mine must not be given for lobola because it belongs to the rain. It cannot be given to cowards." This refers to the old custom of sacrificing a dark-coloured or black beast for the rain ceremony. It is sung when the bride-price has been to the girl's parents. At the end of the song one of the men declaims a praise, Maboko, for the grandfather of the present Chief - Chief Ikaneng who died about 1896. Engagement song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Group of Lete men , 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/10962/165317 , vital:41232 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0112-04
- Description: "This dark cow of mine must not be given for lobola because it belongs to the rain. It cannot be given to cowards." This refers to the old custom of sacrificing a dark-coloured or black beast for the rain ceremony. It is sung when the bride-price has been to the girl's parents. At the end of the song one of the men declaims a praise, Maboko, for the grandfather of the present Chief - Chief Ikaneng who died about 1896. Engagement song.
- 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
Maeba Masimong (Pigeons in the fields)
- Molatsi Raseile and group of menn, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Molatsi Raseile and group of menn , 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/10962/162229 , vital:40822 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0106-06
- Description: 'Mother and Father, my parents, I speak strongly with insolence. I always push people around (I bully people)." Mokobelo men's party dance.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Molatsi Raseile and group of menn , 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/10962/162229 , vital:40822 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0106-06
- Description: 'Mother and Father, my parents, I speak strongly with insolence. I always push people around (I bully people)." Mokobelo men's party dance.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Ndapanda kobidi ndini (I discovered the pain myslef)
- Kaiya Maritenzi and Ngoni men and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Kaiya Maritenzi and Ngoni men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Ngoni (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Mozambique Furancungo f-mz
- Language: Ngoni
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154910 , vital:39792 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR084-12
- Description: The leader works as a trumpeter at the headquaters of the administrator of Furancungo. Ngoma dance with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Kaiya Maritenzi and Ngoni men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Ngoni (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Mozambique Furancungo f-mz
- Language: Ngoni
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154910 , vital:39792 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR084-12
- Description: The leader works as a trumpeter at the headquaters of the administrator of Furancungo. Ngoma dance with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
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