Kgosi boa-a Kegakilwe bakgosi boa (Chief Kegakilwe, the chieftainship is leaving us)
- Authors: Dintsa Marumolo and about 60 young men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Folk songs, Tswana , Sotho-Tswana languages , Tswana (African people) , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Tshidilamolomo f-lo
- Language: Tswana/Rolong
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162392 , vital:40926 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0107-03
- Description: A most interesting song which may well reflect something of the perplexity of the Tswana who have failed as yet to adjust themselves to the 20th century. "Chief Kegakilwe, the chieftainship is leaving us. Oh, we are afraid of the Europeans. We are afraid of their language. The young men all, all are afraid of the Europeans. Oh! where shall we escape to?" Male initiation song.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Ishetlhana e Tswerwe ke seokamo
- Authors: Dintsa Marumolo and about 60 young men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Folk songs, Tswana , Sotho-Tswana languages , Tswana (African people) , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Tshidilamolomo f-lo
- Language: Tswana/Rolong
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162367 , vital:40924 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0107-01
- Description: The singers had just come back from initiation school. Here they use floor polish instead of the traditional red ochre with which to stain themselves. Several of them looked like Nilo Hamite men from Kenya and some of their songs also suggested the modality of those Northern tribes coincidence perhaps, but noticable. "The brown cow is held, caught and held prisoner and stands there all day. The other cows are also held fast in the same way. The brown yearling, our father's cow, ruled over nations while held flat." The words are allusive and symbolic. Male initiation song performed while in the veld.
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- Date Issued: 1959
He mmalo khaka tshotsome (We have encircled the guinea-fowl)
- Authors: Dintsa Marumolo and about 60 young men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Folk songs, Tswana , Sotho-Tswana languages , Tswana (African people) , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Tshidilamolomo f-lo
- Language: Tswana/Rolong
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162401 , vital:40927 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0107-04
- Description: "We have encircled the guinea-fowl. We men have encircled the guinea-fowl." Male initiation song.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Tomolang ka diatla (like putting up carrots with your hands)
- Authors: Dintsa Marumolo and about 60 young men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Folk songs, Tswana , Sotho-Tswana languages , Tswana (African people) , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Tshidilamolomo f-lo
- Language: Tswana/Rolong
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162382 , vital:40925 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0107-02
- Description: The singers had just come back from initiation school. Here they use floor polish instead of the traditional red ochre with which to stain themselves. Several of them looked like Nilo Hamite men from Kenya and some of their songs also suggested the modality of those Northern tribes coincidence perhaps, but noticable. The singers were waering tribal attire, skins, carrying sticks and knockberries, had their heads shaved except for a patch in the crwon and were stained red. "It is like pulling up carrots (by hand)! To be a policeman is a battle with your hands! Let us go and do it with our hands." 'Diatla'-hands. The word 'hands' is significant and the meaning of the song plays upon this word. Male initiation song performed while in the veld.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Monnamogolo (Old man baboon)
- Authors: Dorothy Kgosilentswe and four young girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Disaneng f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Tlharo
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165011 , vital:41194 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0111-07
- Description: "Have you bewitched me, that you haunt me like this. Old baboon man? Ruthu, Ruthu," Hopping game, girls went backwards and forwards in a circle holding alternately the right and left foot. Singing game.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Le kae le watle (Where is the sea)
- Authors: Dorothy Kgosilentswe and four young girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Disaneng f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Tlharo
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165020 , vital:41195 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0111-08
- Description: "Where is the sea? It is in Cape Town. We are growing up. How many are we? We are short." The girls danced forward, follow-my-leader's style and then backwards, crouching. Singing game.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Sa bona, bona, bona (We saw, we saw, we saw)
- Authors: Dorothy Kgosilentswe and four young girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Disaneng f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Tlharo
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165002 , vital:41193 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0111-06
- Description: "We saw, we saw, we saw, hi, hi, we saw, etc." The girls knelt in a circle, patting the earth in front of them with both hands. Singing game.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Lelwa retswang teng resentse (We come from the place where we have killed)
- Authors: Eight Kwena men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Kwena (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Botswana Molepolole f-bs
- Language: Tswana/Kwena
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162817 , vital:40986 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , 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.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Xhosa I (Saturday is a lonely day)
- Authors: Four men and group of 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/10962/165660 , vital:41268 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0114-04
- Description: "Saturday is a lonely day." "If you have no one to go out with on a Saturday, you feel very lonely indeed", they explained. This version of the step dance which is performed with rubber or other padding on the ankles, is similar to the 'Isicatulo' boot dance of the Southern Zulu and Xhosa tribes. Step dance with clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Xhosa II (Xhosa)
- Authors: Four men and group of 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/10962/165665 , vital:41269 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0114-05
- Description: "Saturday is a lonely day." "If you have no one to go out with on a Saturday, you feel very lonely indeed", they explained. This version of the step dance which is performed with rubber or other padding on the ankles, is similar to the 'Isicatulo' boot dance of the Southern Zulu and Xhosa tribes. Step dance with clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Marimbo
- Authors: George Modiegnyana and group of young 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/10962/165895 , vital:41293 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0115-14
- Description: Sung at a wedding in honour of both bride and bridegroom. The singers had just come back from initiation school and huddled together looking very shy. The solo part gives indications of foreign influence. A cicada was singing in the tree under which the singers were grouped. Wedding song.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Ngwanyana a tima Mosadi-Mogola mosoko (The girl who did not give the old woman food)
- Authors: Gertrude Matlou , Hugh Tracey
- 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/10962/166254 , vital:41343 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0117-06
- Description: A certain girl cooked food and did not give any to an old woman. Later on the girl went to play. While she was playing she saw a locust which she follwed into the country. Other girls with her got tired, but she went on. The same old woman was out in the bush and she caught the locust and handed it to the girl when she came up, but when the girl tried to accept it, the woman caught hold of her and she began to cry. A man who was nearby heard the cry and came and killed the old woman, took the girl and nursed her wounds. One day the girl went to the river and there met her fatherwho went with her to her rescuer and gave him an ox and then afterwards took her safely home again. Story.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Maboko tsa Kgosi Masibi II (Praises for Chief Masibi II)
- Authors: Goitshasiwang Moleele , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Disaneng f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Tlharo
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/164172 , vital:41087 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0110-03
- Description: The words allude to a Barolong Chief having been put over the tribe when the present Chief's father was exiled to Hannansvlei where he died. His ody was brought back to Disaneng to be buried. Praise.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Silang moshoko (Grind and make porridge)
- Authors: Grace Merementsi and group of about 30 school girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Disaneng f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Tlharo
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165177 , vital:41215 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0111-09
- Description: "Grind and make porridge, milk the cows. The sun has set. The children are hungry. The children are getting rheumatic. That man is lean." Some of the children knelt and rubbed the stones on each other, in imitation of grinding whilst the others sang and made appropriate miming gestures to each verse. Children's singing game.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Mmemogolo golo gana kobo (My grandmother has no blanket)
- Authors: Group of 12 men , 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/10962/165304 , vital:41231 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0112-03
- Description: Male initiation song.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Pududu we re sentu (Old Chief Ikaneng)
- Authors: Group of 12 men , 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/10962/165511 , vital:41251 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0112-12
- Description: "We have killed the people of the Kalahari." Makgalagadi is a team of contempt apparently used by some Tswana tribes for any tribe which lives further west than themselves. This old song refers to the feuds between the Lete and the Ngwaketse tribes. The Chief Ikaneng was always called "Pududu" - 'the old man' by his people. At the end of the song one of them recites a praise to the old chief "Pududu Ikaneng." Fighting song.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Ke nare e lona (I am a big Buffalo)
- Authors: Group of 20 men , 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/10962/165288 , vital:41229 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0112-01
- Description: "I am a big buffalo, I can go through any barrier." Halfway through the song, the Chief's uncle stops them and shows them how to sing it. Male initiation song.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Pududu we-e (Old one)
- Authors: Group of 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/10962/166209 , vital:41338 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0117-01
- Description: "Grey ox-grey home. There at the place we have come from, we have destroyed. The heart of the enemy, grey home, we have slaughtered for the birds of prey. The ox of the enemy, they have destroyed us and we also have destroyed them. Men, we are people who have spilt blood on the grass. We are the blood spilt on the grass-Grey home. The ox of the enemy, we are those whose blood is spilt everywhere upon the earth. Brindled one, with a blackback, beast of the enemy." The song was introduced by the Chief, Murusi Pilane. Regimental song.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Mogalepetla nong tsa noka e kgolo (The Mogalepetla birds live near the great river)
- Authors: Group of 8 men , 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/10962/165296 , vital:41230 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0112-02
- Description: "The Mogalepetla birds live on the banks of a great river. They live along the banks of the river Mayinole." The praises in the middle of this song were for the present Chief, Mokgosi III. Male initiation song.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Sechomane, ke kabo ke itsi (Sechomane, if I knew how to write)
- Authors: 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 Ramoutsa f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Lete
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165344 , vital:41235 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0112-07
- Description: "Sechomane, if I knew how to write, I would write to the Chief." The melody of this song suggests a similarity with songs from the Masai - Arusha region of Tanganyika. There may be no direct connection whatsoever; it is only the musical impact which suggests the comparison. People's dance with clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1959