Eh, Pula aene, e le mogogo (Let it rain)
- Authors: Tietse Modisane and group of about 30 women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Motswedi f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165565 , vital:41257 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0113-06
- Description: "Let it rain! Let it rain so that it washes all the rubbish away with its waters!" The Western Transvaal has inadequate rainfall in many places as low as 15 to 18 inches a year, gradually becoming reduced towards the West and the Kalahari Desert where recently in one region no rain at all has fallen for five years. This accounts for the numerous rain songs to be found among the Tswana tribes who have good cause for anxiety for their crops each year. No rain songs are sung in high rainfall areas. The praise lines or verses are set lines, not impromptu. The words are both archaic and poetic used only for Leboko. The clapping is ritual, but it is always correct to clap the hands when asking for something. The Moroka or rainmaker was the officiant in a rain-making ceremony. Rain song, with clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Mamoko, mamoko, matlabama iye (Clouds, clouds, low clouds, iye)
- Authors: Tietse Modisane and group of about 30 women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Motswedi f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165574 , vital:41258 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0113-07
- Description: "Clouds, clouds, low clouds, iys, they are thundering." The Western Transvaal has inadequate rainfall in many places as low as 15 to 18 inches a year, gradually becoming reduced towards the West and the Kalahari Desert where recently in one region no rain at all has fallen for five years. This accounts for the numerous rain songs to be found among the Tswana tribes who have good cause for anxiety for their crops each year. No rain songs are sung in high rainfall areas. The praise lines or verses are set lines, not impromptu. The words are both archaic and poetic used only for Leboko. The clapping is ritual, but it is always correct to clap the hands when asking for something. The Moroka or rainmaker was the officiant in a rain-making ceremony. Rain song, with clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Bolelela Ramonogeng (Tell Ramonogeng we are going home)
- Authors: Silas Kgaragoba , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Zeerust f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165859 , vital:41289 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0115-10
- Description: "Tell Ramonogeng we are going homw, we are going to face trials in court. Tell the induna of the Chief, we are going home to face trials in court." Four boys initiation song.
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- Date Issued: 1959
O sempone le la kana ke botlhale (I may be young, but I am clever)
- Authors: Silas Kgaragoba , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Zeerust f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165877 , vital:41291 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0115-12
- Description: "Do not see me as young as I am, but I am clever." i.e. "I may be young, but I am clever."Sung when going up to the hills for initiation.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Marola Bila Kile
- Authors: Richard Majafe , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Zeerust f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165868 , vital:41290 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0115-11
- Description: Four boys initiation song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Magawalela (People of Mapula)
- Authors: Odirile Masumoloa and 14 men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Zeerust f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165850 , vital:41288 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0115-09
- Description: "People of Mapula, I, the young man, cry in the sand. I heard a person cursing his elders, cursing one who had carried him on his back..i-i-i...!" This song is also regimental or age group song. Four boys initiation song.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Leboko la ga Kgosi Mpolokang (Praises in honour of Chief Mpolokang)
- Authors: Ntshekang Modukanele. Witkleigat (Chief Lencoe) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Zeerust f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165841 , vital:41287 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0115-08
- Description: "The cow cries at the path of Maroala. It passed through Swartfontein. It was paid for lobola for Norah. It was enjoyed by all." Chief Mpolokang was the present Chief's father. Leboko - praise verse.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Kgokong (If it dies)
- Authors: Mosaila Mokgothu and Hurutshe men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Witkleigat f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166296 , vital:41348 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0117-10
- Description: "If it dies, I will take the hindquaters. I will also take the ribs." Hunting song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Kgongana tshewa (Must I pay a beast in order to marry you?)
- Authors: Momitse Mutokwa and 18 men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Gopane f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165814 , vital:41284 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0115-05
- Description: A song sung by the bridegroom's party. Wedding song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Tsiroro (Do you want to be married, Tsiroro?)
- Authors: Momitse Mutokwa and 18 Hurutshe men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Gopane f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165805 , vital:41283 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0115-04
- Description: Singers and audience all got up and danced with enthusiasm during the replying of their recording. The day was very hot and these recordings were made in a temperature of over 105 degrees in the shade. Betrothal song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Eh, dumedisa moeng (Greetings to the visitor)
- Authors: Mokgele Mokgejane and group of men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Motswedi f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165556 , vital:41256 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0113-05
- Description: "Greetings to the visitors, good day to you, visitors. Tell us where you come from." This song of greetings was followed by a series of praises, spoken by different men, in honour of their own village, Motswedi, which is a pleasantly located village lying on the slopes of a hill which forms a headland jutting out above the plain. This song was prefaced by Chief Lucas Mangape saying "Pula" and everyone responding "Pula" - "Rain", which is a Tswana greeting in this low rainfall region. Greeting song with praises.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Kea, gae kea goseka (I am going home)
- Authors: Mokgele Mokgejane and group of 24 Hurutshe men; Praiser: Steps Tolo , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Motswedi f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165538 , vital:41254 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0113-03
- Description: This is a well known praise song, sung all over the country. "I am going home. The Chief's uncle must act as an intermediary (mediator) between the Chief and the tribes folk. Tell them." Greetings to the Chief.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Stepps a dikgomo di teng (Steeps, are there cattle in this place)
- Authors: Mokgele Mokgejane and group of 24 Hurutshe men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Motswedi f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165583 , vital:41259 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0113-08
- Description: "Stepps, are there cattle in this place? Come, let us take them. We must take them from Mokwena and drive them into a cave." The woman at the end of the song spoke the praises of the successful cattle-raiders. It appears to be a local custom to recite praise verses at the conclusion of each song. How the name 'Steeps' originated is not known. Cattle raiding song.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Sananapo (Daughter of the Chief)
- Authors: Mokgele Mokgejane , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Motswedi f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165642 , vital:41266 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0114-02
- Description: "Sananapo, Sananapo, they have killed her, Sananapo! They gave me a bone which I refused, syaing I cannot eat this person because she is a Chief's daughter." Sananapo, the daughter of the Chief, was murdered. Her murderers were found by the storyteller, cooking and eating her corpose. They offered him a bone, but he refused, saying "I am not a cannibal, especially when it comes to the daughter of a Chief." Cannibalism was rare in this part of Africa and does not often occur in song or story. The last reports of it were believed to have occurred during the Zulu-Ndebele terror in the early part of the 19th century when whole tribes were driven to distraction and desperation by the Zulu raids, under the Captain Mzilikazi who was eventually driven north over the Limpopo river. Story.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Pula (Rain)
- Authors: Mohapa Tshetlereyane and 20 women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Zeerust f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165904 , vital:41294 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0115-15
- Description: "They are going to ask for rain, they have been struck by lightening, they are going to look for rain. Long, long rain." The singers were a group of elderly Hurutshe women. This is a very old song, sung in time of drought when a deputation of the people would go to the Chief, asking him to send a messenger to his rain-maker. Rain song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Dumedisa Moeng
- Authors: Mamidse Motlokwa and 22 men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Gopane f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165787 , vital:41281 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0115-02
- Description: A song sung while the young men are living out on the hills during their initiation schooling. Three boys initiation song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Bolelela Ramonogeng (Tell Ramonogeng)
- Authors: Mamideo Motlokwa and 22 men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Gopane f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165792 , vital:41282 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0115-03
- Description: Song sung on returning to the village from the hills after the end of the initiation schooling. Three boys initiation song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Kongwana tshweu wee (Oh, the white cow)
- Authors: Lenpe Mongae and group of about 24 Hurutshe men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Motswedi f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165632 , vital:41265 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0114-01
- Description: "Oh, the white cow! She will bring a very good price at the cattle sale!" Praise song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Tsabalala ('Tshabalala' - girl's name)
- Authors: Large group of men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Motswedi f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165547 , vital:41255 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0113-04
- Description: "You who reject men's advances, Tshabalala. What will your mother eat, Tshabalala? In point of fact, food is provided by son-in-law, Tshabalala." The 'son-in-lwa' reference implies not only the bride-price 'Bogadi' paid for a girl, but the son-in-law also ploughs for his mother-in-law. A wedding song for the bride, with clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Mmamathlwane (The Bat)
- Authors: Large group of Hurutshe women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Motswedi f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165529 , vital:41253 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0113-02
- Description: "Bat, it is not impossible for it to flutter around." This song may be sung on any party occassion, but is more particularly associated with the girls' return from initiation school. Song for girls returning from initiation, with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959