- Title
- Lelwa retswang teng resentse (We come from the place where we have killed)
- Creator
- Eight Kwena men
- Creator
- Hugh Tracey
- Subject
- Folk songs, Tswana
- Subject
- Tswana (African people)
- Subject
- Kwena (African people)
- Subject
- Folk music
- Subject
- Field recordings
- Subject
- Africa, Sub-Saharan
- Subject
- Africa Botswana Molepolole f-bs
- Date Issued
- 1959
- Date
- 1959
- Type
- sound recordings
- Type
- field recordings
- Type
- sound recording-musical
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162817
- Identifier
- vital:40986
- Identifier
- International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
- Identifier
- TR0109-09
- Description
- "We come from where we have killed. Oh, the greyhead! We-we! We praise our leader. We come from the place where we have killed. Once we killed the people of the Kalahari. We killed them and they killed us." According to the interpreter it appears that initiation songs among the Tswana follow a certin pattern and the same ones are sung by all the Tswana tribes, with local variations. Male initiation song.
- Format
- mp3
- Format
- 7" Reel
- Format
- 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
- Format
- Studer B67 Recorder
- Format
- Sound Forge V.6
- Format
- 00:04:48
- Publisher
- International Library of African Music
- Language
- Tswana/Kwena
- 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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