He! MaRahia (Hey! Russians)

Title: He! MaRahia (Hey! Russians)
Creator: Mamojela Lesojane and large group of Sotho women
Creator: Hugh Tracey
Subject: Folk songs, Sotho
Subject: Sotho (African people)
Subject: Folk music
Subject: Field recordings
Subject: Africa, Sub-Saharan
Subject: Africa Lesotho Maseru f-lo
Date Issued: 1959
Date: 1959
Type: sound recordings
Type: field recordings
Type: sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161499
Identifier: vital:40630
Identifier: International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Identifier: TR0103-09
Description: "Mantsebo(the Paramount Chief Regent) is a jealous woman. She has taken children away from their parents and given them to the 'Russians'." The AmaRussia is one of the notorious gangs in the Johannesburg native townships. The children, they suggest, may have been girls intended for immoral purposes. Hoeing song.
Format: mp3
Format: 7" Reel
Format: 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
Format: Studer B67 Recorder
Format: Sound Forge V.6
Format: 00:01:35
Publisher: International Library of African Music
Language: Sotho
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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