Ke ne ke le meiti (I was a maid)
- Authors: A small group of Sotho women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Tebang f-lo
- Language: Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162242 , vital:40824 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0106-08
- Description: This song is sung the right before the girls leave the village for their initiation school. "I was a maid to many Europeans. Long ago when I was a girl I tended calves. I had to pay for water, and pay to sleep as well." Lelingoana women's initiation song.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Ei, ei, ei, ngoana oa l-la (Ei, ei, ei, the child cries)
- Authors: Agnes Lekhoti and Nuku Lesoetsa , 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/10962/160957 , vital:40573 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0101-01
- Description: "Ei, Ei, Ei, the child cries and stops. I went to Mpharane and found my friends child ill. I went out and prayed, then I took a pick and went up the mountain." "The Monakaladi plant of Thabana Morena. If you eat it, you will have cracked feet." Lullaby.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Noh'a Metsi (Water snake)
- Authors: Agnes Nchanyana. 4 assistants and group of 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/10962/161222 , vital:40604 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0102-08
- Description: The leader does a shaking dance on her knees as she sings "Water snake! it comes out the east and it is very angry." The singer, in addition to her diviner's beads, shells, bells and small antelope horns, wore a large Catholic rosary with a worn medal of the Sacred heart, knotted into her girdle. Her scarlet skirt was thickly embroidered with designs in white beads. The adoption of Catholic symbols by pagans for their divination rites is common in nominally Catholic countries, especially by Black Africans (originally referred to as Negroes at the time) who use them in their Voodoo ceremonies. Diviners' song with cylindrical drum (-14.03-) and frame drum (-14.92-).
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- Date Issued: 1959
Tau lia rora (Lions roar)
- Authors: Group of 15 Sotho girl initiates , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Mokoroane f-lo
- Language: Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162256 , vital:40827 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , 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.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Khutsanyana (An orphan)
- Authors: Group of 15 Sotho girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Mokoroane f-lo
- Language: Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162286 , vital:40829 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0106-11
- Description: "I want to write to my brother, Lethula, to come and see this cruel act perpetrated on his mother's child who has gone round Kolo (mountain) five times looking for the women's charm. She has seen it today. Women are hard hearted, they will not initiate a decent person. They initiate orphans. An orphan who has lost her mother. Whom death has imbued with courage. Losing one's parent is painful. I should have had an uncle who would have given me a goat to give to the waterman. To please the waterman so that he would return to the water." The "waterman" is a water sprite. Lelingoana women's initiation song with slapping hands on leather skirts.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Lethisa (Uninitiated)
- Authors: Group of 15 Sotho girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Mokoroane f-lo
- Language: Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162277 , vital:40828 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0106-10
- Description: The singers were daubed entirely with white clay and were wearing traditional costume, leather skirts. rows of tubular grass girdles or, in some cases, girdles made of short lengths of reed strung together and grass masks shaped like screens. Two or three women wore deep fringes of reed over their leather skirts. "Ho, stop it! Ho, ho, what is that? She wishes to enter the initiation school. She is just a dog." Lelingoana women's initiation song.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Thota peli na Molapo (The rolling downs of Molapo)
- Authors: Group of 20 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/10962/161066 , vital:40588 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0101-08
- Description: The soloist rises in pitch throughout the song. "Rolling downs of Molapo. Mokale and Khethisa are quarreling over the spring at Nkala. Horses are saddled. Who is the mother of the unmarried girl? Giver her a letter, Makamore, the marriage letter. There is a fight at the rolling downs. Horses should be saddled. They are going to Maseru. The worst singer is Raphane's mother. I shouted with a sad voice. I shouted and shook the graves. Women's party song with clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Kunyete (Girls dresses)
- Authors: Jacquot Mokete , 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/10962/161117 , vital:40593 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0101-12
- Description: The player placed an empty condensed milk tin picked up off the ground nearby, over the free end of the harmonica, vibrating it to and from as far as his mouth position would allow, thus producing not only greater resonance to his own ear but a vibrato as well. Self delectative song, with harmonica.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Sutha tseleng (Get out of the way)
- Authors: Jacquot Mokete , 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/10962/161104 , vital:40592 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0101-11
- Description: "Get out of the way. Don't be frightened by gossip, girls, gossip is always a storm in a village. Don't change your abode just because somebody says he loves you. You will find people like that wherever you go. A woman is a dog for whom everybody wants to die." The last line seems to mean that just as an owner is ready to die for his dog should anyone molest it, so a man is ready to die for a woman should she be attacked. The player placed an empty condensed milk tin picked up off the ground nearby, over the free end of the harmonica, vibrating it to and from as far as his mouth position would allow, thus producing not only greater resonance to his own ear but a vibrato as well. Self delectative song, with harmonica.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Lithoko tsa hae (Praise for himself)
- Authors: James Mofokeng , 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/10962/161204 , vital:40602 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0102-06
- Description: These praises were personal and referred to the speaker and opened the divining procedure which follwed. The small group of diviners was composed of a man and two women all wearing theri traditional diviners costume and beads. The older woman wore a skin cap, the younger one's long dress was of cloth treated with red ochre and lightly embroidered and decorated with white beads. Praise song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Ba tsetse ka likepe
- Authors: Jane Mosese and large group of men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Maseru f-lo
- Language: Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162115 , vital:40760 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0105-10
- Description: "When you want to marry, choose a wife for yourself. Don't blame anybody for choosing one for you. They refuse to cross the Vaal river." Mohobelo dance song with stamping of feet.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Seolhla (song)
- Authors: Jane Mosese and large group of men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Maseru f-lo
- Language: Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162101 , vital:40759 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0105-09
- Description: "Seolhla" is another way of saying "song". It may also be the name of a person as in this song. "Seolhla has left us. Those men on the way to Matsieng have left us behind. Seolhla is riding. If I eat food I will die and leave them to thie love. These wicked people." Mohobelo dance song with stamping of feet.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Litsoanya II (A nice song)
- Authors: Julius Mochekoana and Leboea March , 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/10962/161091 , vital:40590 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0101-10
- Description: This is herdboys' music and the accompanying noises are the kind made by herdsmen to their cattle. Self delectative song with Lesiba stick zither.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Litsoanya I (A nice song)
- Authors: Julius Mochekoana and Leboea March , 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/10962/161086 , vital:40589 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0101-09
- Description: This is herdboys' music and the accompanying noises are the kind made by herdsmen to their cattle. Self delectative song with Lesiba stick zither.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Sekupu ! (Drums)
- Authors: Lesole Motsoari, 3 diviners and a group of 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/10962/161028 , vital:40583 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0101-05
- Description: The leader shook his shoulders and body during the song, which movement can be heard in his voice. "Drums!" "At Sione they caught a baboon with long hair Maupha's anger! It is father - boy - (untranslatable). Their anger!. It is father 'Manyetse' (long hair). I am the baby boy." Chorus "Siyavuma." The speaker ends each line with the word "Khanya" (light). The frame drum had crossed wires at the back which were used to hold the drum in the left hand. Both drums were of metal and the usual membrane, they say, is either cow or horse hide. Mathuela, diviner's dance song, with small drum (-14.03-), frame drum (-14.92-) and clapping (-12.03-).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Mammalo Sebolelo
- Authors: Lesoli Maboka and large group of young men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Maseru f-lo
- Language: Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161280 , vital:40612 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0103-04
- Description: "You don't speak about a boy with an onion headdress. I don't speak about our uninitiated girls. I don't speak about earings that become me nor about your buying earings or bungles." Lengae men's initiation song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Likhomo (Cattle)
- Authors: Liphapang Mokopu and small group of men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Tebang f-lo
- Language: Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161946 , vital:40694 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0104-15
- Description: "Ho! Cattle. Ho! Ea! Hee! This peace. We, of the Ntolo family, are Christians." Mokorotlo riding song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Lumela Koete(Good morning, sir)
- Authors: Mahehlohonolo Lebesa and Maletsoara Johane and Sotho women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Maseru f-lo
- Language: Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161575 , vital:40641 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0103-10
- Description: Koete is a well-dressed man, a smart man. "Good morning, Koete! How tall is my friend? He is very small for so large a name. Good morning to you. Yes, te same to you , Koete. 'Hippy' is a brave man. It is living in difficult surroundings,". Hoeing song.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Lumela Koete(Good morning, sir)
- Authors: Mahehlohonolo Lebesa and Maletsoara Johane and Sotho women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Maseru f-lo
- Language: Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161616 , vital:40642 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0103-10
- Description: Koete is a well-dressed man, a smart man. "Good morning, Koete! How tall is my friend? He is very small for so large a name. Good morning to you. Yes, te same to you , Koete. 'Hippy' is a brave man. It is living in difficult surroundings,". Hoeing song.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Ha ke a ota kenamphane (I am so thin
- Authors: Mahehlohonolo Lebesa and Maletsoara Johane and Sotho women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Maseru f-lo
- Language: Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161696 , vital:40652 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0103-11
- Description: "I am very thin because I am always walking. I will take a train to the Free State and I will remember Chief Semapa. Mother Mantsala, you should protect me. I have a beautiful blanket, one that is very washable. You only find such a blanket at Leribe which is my home. In Chief Molapo's country among the mountains. I will now stop, I am stopping." Hoeing song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959