Mngoma uvelaphi (Hullo, where do you come from?)
- Group of Hlangwini men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of Hlangwini men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-sa
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151428 , vital:39097 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-04
- Description: An elderly crippled man leapt out at the end of this song and swung himself right off the ground swivelling round on his crutch and landing on his one good leg. Ndhlamu dance song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of Hlangwini men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-sa
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151428 , vital:39097 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-04
- Description: An elderly crippled man leapt out at the end of this song and swung himself right off the ground swivelling round on his crutch and landing on his one good leg. Ndhlamu dance song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Mngoma uvelaphi (Hullo, where do you come from?)
- Group of Hlangwini men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of Hlangwini men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-sa
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151475 , vital:39133 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-05
- Description: An elderly crippled man leapt out at the end of this song and swung himself right off the ground swivelling round on his crutch and landing on his one good leg. Ndhlamu dance song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of Hlangwini men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-sa
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151475 , vital:39133 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-05
- Description: An elderly crippled man leapt out at the end of this song and swung himself right off the ground swivelling round on his crutch and landing on his one good leg. Ndhlamu dance song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Mokhoroane (The dove)
- Authors: Theko Moshesh , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-sa
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151619 , vital:39148 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-17
- Description: The Lesiba is a wind blown stringed instrument, mostly played by herd boys as they herd their cattle on the hills. It consists of a slightly bent stick of abour 36-40 long. Along one side is strained a string, sometimes of horse hair or sinew, to one end of which is attached a section of fowl's quill. This is held in place by placing it between small double wedges held firmly in a small hole drilled into that end of the stick. Self-delectative song with Lesiba stick zither with quill.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Theko Moshesh , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-sa
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151619 , vital:39148 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-17
- Description: The Lesiba is a wind blown stringed instrument, mostly played by herd boys as they herd their cattle on the hills. It consists of a slightly bent stick of abour 36-40 long. Along one side is strained a string, sometimes of horse hair or sinew, to one end of which is attached a section of fowl's quill. This is held in place by placing it between small double wedges held firmly in a small hole drilled into that end of the stick. Self-delectative song with Lesiba stick zither with quill.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ndiy' nyama emnandi kwabaka bawo (I am good meat)
- Group of Hlangwini women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of Hlangwini women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-sa
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151309 , vital:39050 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-03
- Description: "I am good meat to my father's children, they are throwing only bones to me. I should have been dead if the diviners had not been looking after me." The orign of this song and its literal translation are both obsecure. Hoeing song - work song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of Hlangwini women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-sa
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151309 , vital:39050 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-03
- Description: "I am good meat to my father's children, they are throwing only bones to me. I should have been dead if the diviners had not been looking after me." The orign of this song and its literal translation are both obsecure. Hoeing song - work song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Nteta ya nkosi (Chief's speech)
- Headman Bennett Baleni, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Headman Bennett Baleni , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-sa
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151291 , vital:39048 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-01
- Description: The headman of this location Bernett Baleni is himself a Hlangwini, but many of his people are both Baca and Sotho. The dialect they speak is a mixture, they say, of all three, but is classified as Baca. Speech with praise cries.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Headman Bennett Baleni , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-sa
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151291 , vital:39048 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-01
- Description: The headman of this location Bernett Baleni is himself a Hlangwini, but many of his people are both Baca and Sotho. The dialect they speak is a mixture, they say, of all three, but is classified as Baca. Speech with praise cries.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Pikoko
- Group of Sotho women (Perfomers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of Sotho women (Perfomers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Sotho , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134145 , vital:37078 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR018-03
- Description: The curious dance was executed on their knees, and consisted of rhythmic jerking movements of the arms, torso and shoulders. The dance is peculiar to the women only. There is a refrain: "Tokolosho," "The imp."
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of Sotho women (Perfomers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Sotho , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134145 , vital:37078 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR018-03
- Description: The curious dance was executed on their knees, and consisted of rhythmic jerking movements of the arms, torso and shoulders. The dance is peculiar to the women only. There is a refrain: "Tokolosho," "The imp."
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Sake tlo bone sekate (Sake, come and see the damage done on the lands)
- Group of Sotho women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of Sotho women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-sa
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151590 , vital:39145 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-14
- Description: The four leading women sang this song on their knees, and the principal singer also mimed the torso, hip and arm movements of the dance whilst she sang. Mokihibo dance for women (knee dance) with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of Sotho women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-sa
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151590 , vital:39145 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-14
- Description: The four leading women sang this song on their knees, and the principal singer also mimed the torso, hip and arm movements of the dance whilst she sang. Mokihibo dance for women (knee dance) with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Tenshin (Attention)
- Sotho men and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Sotho men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-sa
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151533 , vital:39139 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-09
- Description: "We stand at attention whenever we see him." Meaning we respect the Chief and salute him respectfully whenever we see him. The old lady, leading the song was the mother-in-law of the Chief and therefore was not allowed to mention her son-in-law's name, according to the 'Hlonipa' custom by which a woman must speak in synonyms of her husband and his family. Agricultural and domestic work song for hoeing.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Sotho men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-sa
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151533 , vital:39139 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-09
- Description: "We stand at attention whenever we see him." Meaning we respect the Chief and salute him respectfully whenever we see him. The old lady, leading the song was the mother-in-law of the Chief and therefore was not allowed to mention her son-in-law's name, according to the 'Hlonipa' custom by which a woman must speak in synonyms of her husband and his family. Agricultural and domestic work song for hoeing.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Thali ea ma tsoana (The lightening of the Chieftainess)
- Sotho men and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Sotho men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-sa
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151572 , vital:39143 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-12
- Description: This song is a work song for hoeing. Agricultural and domestic work song for grinding.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Sotho men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-sa
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151572 , vital:39143 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-12
- Description: This song is a work song for hoeing. Agricultural and domestic work song for grinding.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Tsa eja setsi
- Group of Sotho men and small Sotho boys (Performers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of Sotho men and small Sotho boys (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Sotho , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134196 , vital:37098 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR018-05
- Description: The spirited re-enaction of a mouse-hunt was performed by a group of middle-aged Sotho men, who had all gone mouse-hunting in their youth as herdboys. One sat on the ground, stabbing at imaginery mice, whilst the others encouraged him with shouts and cries-indicating in which direction the mouse had gone. It got away.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of Sotho men and small Sotho boys (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Sotho , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134196 , vital:37098 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR018-05
- Description: The spirited re-enaction of a mouse-hunt was performed by a group of middle-aged Sotho men, who had all gone mouse-hunting in their youth as herdboys. One sat on the ground, stabbing at imaginery mice, whilst the others encouraged him with shouts and cries-indicating in which direction the mouse had gone. It got away.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Tsina (Thresh)
- Sotho men and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Sotho men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-sa
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151511 , vital:39137 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-08
- Description: "We are threshing the corn out of which we get cattle, we get beer, we get everything." Agricultural and domestic song for threshing.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Sotho men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-sa
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151511 , vital:39137 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-08
- Description: "We are threshing the corn out of which we get cattle, we get beer, we get everything." Agricultural and domestic song for threshing.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Tula moana me (Hush, mother's child)
- Sotho men and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Sotho men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-sa
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151558 , vital:39142 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-11
- Description: This song is a lullaby used as a grinding son. Agricultural and domestic work song for grinding.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Sotho men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-sa
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151558 , vital:39142 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-11
- Description: This song is a lullaby used as a grinding son. Agricultural and domestic work song for grinding.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Uyabaleka wemungoma hmu (The diviner runs away)
- Group of young Hlangwini men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of young Hlangwini men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-sa
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151484 , vital:39134 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-06
- Description: This group of young men had evidently been to the gold mines for they were all wearing the full mine trousers decorated with blue patches. One of them "Shortie" was the cause of much gaiety to the women spectators, who called out (in Baca) "try standing a bit higher, Sho'tie". His trousers were so long and billowing that even when they were hitched up round the knee, they fell in full and graceful folds like a skirt. Ndhlamu dance song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of young Hlangwini men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-sa
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151484 , vital:39134 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-06
- Description: This group of young men had evidently been to the gold mines for they were all wearing the full mine trousers decorated with blue patches. One of them "Shortie" was the cause of much gaiety to the women spectators, who called out (in Baca) "try standing a bit higher, Sho'tie". His trousers were so long and billowing that even when they were hitched up round the knee, they fell in full and graceful folds like a skirt. Ndhlamu dance song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957