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A lona le utse le ithuta dithuto tseo tsa lona

  • Authors: Mapidio Elisabeth Mothulwe and Kgatla women , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Saulspoort f-sa
  • Language: Tswana , Kgatla
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165960 , vital:41301 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0116-05
  • Description: Chief: "Are you going on with those lessons of yours, Kgabo (monkey)? show them to me." Children: "Here they are, here they are." Chief: "Show them to me." Children: "Here they are, here they are." This is believed to be a very old song taught in the early days of the church when the Chief would come round asking the children if they were learning their lessons properly. The Dutch Reformed Church was first established in this village in 1864. Morality song.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

A re eng

Andiyera ndabuda nchito (They reported me and I am out of work)

Anya vindelu tayani uyanga (Be careful, you who wear beards)

Awe simene

Ayalero makulata

Ba mo loile (They have bewitched him)

  • Authors: Mamojela Letsipa, Mahanyane Rakaki, James Mofokeng and 5 women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Berea f-lo
  • Language: Sotho
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161056 , vital:40586 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0101-07
  • Description: Much of the divining ceremonial seems to follow the Xhosa pattern from which it appears to be borrowed. One girl beats a small frame drum made of metal. Some of the phrases used in the divining procedure are Xhosa such as "Siyavuma". "They have bewitched him. The child of the gods. Mahayane has been bewitched. Ntate Sekhobe has been bewitched. Ntate Ntsopa has been bewitched." This song was followed by a Lithoko in praise of the singer. After the Lithoko the same song was repeated, followed by another Lithoko in which further reference was made to the singer, who she was and how she had been cured by another Lethuela (diviner) when she was ill. Mathuela, diviner's dance song, with small drum (-14.03-), frame drum (-14.92-) and clapping (-12.03-).
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Ba tsetse ka likepe (They crossed by boats)

Bana ba tau we-e! (Children of the lion!)

  • Authors: Group of about 70 men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Mochudi f-sa
  • Language: Tswana/Kgatla
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166218 , vital:41339 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0117-02
  • Description: "Children of the lion. He - he! we! Having been called, we have come." This song was recorded on the occasion when the Chief was being presented with the skin of a lion which had recently been killed, out at one of the cattle posts. According to custom, the skin had to be given to the Chief, Murusi Pilane. A large crowd of men marched up through the village to the Chief's council place, the Kgotla, singing this song as they came. The man who had killed the lion wore the skin over his head and shoulders, while four other men were similarly covered with the skins of leopards. A friend had the hollow fanged skull of the lion strapped on top of his head. As they sang, several men stabbed the air with their assegais as if they were reenacting the scene. Hunting song.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Baroka rifeng-rifeng (Rainmaker-give us, give us)

  • Authors: About 40 women , 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/10962/165489 , vital:41249 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0112-10
  • Description: "Rainmaker, give us, give us. We come from the river of water." This rain song is sung from October to December and in times of drought, but also sung on festive or ceremonial occassions. Sung by both men and women. This song has a particularly long melolic line. Rain song.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Bolelela Ramonogeng (Tell Ramonogeng we are going home)

Bolelela Ramonogeng (Tell Ramonogeng)

Buyani Sangweni (Come to the gate)

  • Authors: Elderly men of Chief Njolomole , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Ngoni (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dedza and Ncheu District, Central Nyasaland f-mw
  • Language: Ngoni
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154865 , vital:39787 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR084-07
  • Description: The old Nguni fighting song calls out the men of the village to come and fight, having had the good wishes and blessing of the Isangoma, the woman diviner, assuring them of victory like the prophets of Baal in the Bible story "Go up and prosper." "Ayaye Eye! Come to the gate. There goes the diviner. Yes we hear! What kind of a thing is this and how have you heard it from the wife of a man. It is right, it is right, we agree. Regimental song.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Ca a nelwe kolobe (Give the pig to no one)

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.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Chilungulungu madje (The water snake)

De Aar (De Aar)

Ditshene tsa Mmuputsoane)

  • Authors: Rautana Dinake and large group of men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Ngwaketse (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Botswana Kanye f-bs
  • Language: Tswana/Ngwaketse
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162515 , vital:40942 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0108-05
  • Description: "The baboons of Mmuputsoane eat fruit of the Mumpudu tree, unripe. But not the fruit of the Monyenyana. They would rather eat the Mothwanye fruit, but they must spare the fruit of the Mogwana for we use that to make our cider. Sing my birds." The Mogwana tree is one of the trees of the bushveld. It bears fruit which is used by the Tswana people to make a very potent alcoholic brew, much stronger than beer made from grain. Pina dance with clapping and stamping
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Dumedisa Moeng

Dumele le teme teme lengwe le godimo (Greetings to the most respected Chief)

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