- Title
- Tau lia rora (Lions roar)
- Creator
- Group of 15 Sotho girl initiates
- Creator
- Hugh Tracey
- Subject
- Folk songs, Sotho
- Subject
- Sotho (African people)
- Subject
- Folk music
- Subject
- Field recordings
- Subject
- Africa, Sub-Saharan
- Subject
- Africa Lesotho Mokoroane f-lo
- Date Issued
- 1959
- Date
- 1959
- Type
- sound recordings
- Type
- field recordings
- Type
- sound recording-musical
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162256
- Identifier
- vital:40827
- Identifier
- International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
- Identifier
- 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.
- Format
- mp3
- Format
- 7" Reel
- Format
- 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
- Format
- Studer B67 Recorder
- Format
- Sound Forge V.6
- Format
- 00:01:06
- 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 Ceative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike" License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/)
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