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Kerefisi

- Taba Ramothobi and large group of men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Taba Ramothobi 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/10962/161259 , vital:40610 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0103-02
  • Description: This song refers to the late Paramount Chief Griffiths Lerotholi who was the father-in-law of Mantsebo, the present female regent of the Sotho people (1959). The words are highly poetic, difficult to translate. " Griffiths - 'Griff' of Lerotholi, Griffiths, the promiscous, piercer of women, water snake of Mokhachane (Moshoeshoe's fater). Civet cat, crocodile, one-eyed snake. Rasenqu (Father of the Orange river, the Senqu). You should prosper!" Mokorotlo songs to be sung on horseback.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Ketekete ('Ketekete' the noise made by a bell)

- Lefu Rajane and a group of men, Hugh Tracey

Kgaka e tswher we ke mutloane Mamonope! (The guinea fowl has been caught by a small dog, Mamonope!)

- About 20 men, Hugh Tracey

Kgatha shoewanene (We have driven the guinea fowl)

- Tshekoeng Mokgosi and 8 women and 4 men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Tshekoeng Mokgosi and 8 women and 4 men , 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/10962/164966 , vital:41189 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0111-02
  • Description: "We men, we have driven the guinea fowl into the ruined, deserted kraal. We have driven it, we have driven it. We did, we drove it to the deserted kraal." This song is now used for threshing. Initiation is no longer practised in this district but the similarity in the wording of this song to the one recorded at Kanye seems to confirm its having been an initiation song originally. It is the general custom among the Tswana people for guinea fowl to be hunted by the younger men and then given to the older men. Threshing song.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Kgokong (If it dies)

- Mosaila Mokgothu and Hurutshe men, Hugh Tracey

Kgomo e tsaletse nageng thokwana (A grey cow has calved in the veld)

- Mishack Sehuneo, Hugh Tracey

Kgomo tsa ga Mme (The cattle of my mother)

- Korabo Morapane and large group of men and women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Korabo Morapane 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/10962/162781 , vital:40982 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0109-05
  • Description: "My mother's cattle. My mother who is the mother of rain. The cattle of a dark young woman. Where are these droves of cattle going to? They are going to pray fro rain." Here, by poetic imagery, the cattle symbolise clouds. Rain clouds are dark, hence the 'dark woman'. The very poetic words of this song in which the clouds are likened to cattle, imply the complete dependence of both the Tswana people and their flocks and herds on rain. Rain song.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Kgongana tshewa (Must I pay a beast in order to marry you?)

- Momitse Mutokwa and 18 men, Hugh Tracey

Kgosi boa-a Kegakilwe bakgosi boa (Chief Kegakilwe, the chieftainship is leaving us)

- Dintsa Marumolo and about 60 young men, Hugh Tracey

Khajoane Ntseke (The Crow)

- Malebaka Moroke, Hugh Tracey

Khakha si khudu (The big and the small tortoise)

- Chief Bathoen II C.B.E. and large group of men, Hugh Tracey

Khomo (Cow)

- Moleleki Moiloa and small group of men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Moleleki Moiloa 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/10962/161955 , vital:40696 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0104-16
  • Description: "Cow, mother of manure, you are dirt. We have just prevented you from crossing the Caledon river. Crossing over to the Free State. We, Mojela's people, are Christians. We were given the rod (badge) of prayer. Sekoere's heifer, Moahloli white and red spotted Lejoetsa. Listen, the Tebang chief rules. The Chief rules at Tebang. The pool is dirty and full of crab holes." Mokorotlo riding song.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Khonou e ea kga thamo (The brown ox swings its dewlap)

- Tshekoeng Mokgosi and 4 men and women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Tshekoeng Mokgosi and 4 men and women , 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/10962/164763 , vital:41162 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0111-01
  • Description: "The brown ox swings its dewlap, do not swing your dewalp, brown ox! It comes rushing along, swinging its dewalp, brown ox. The yellow ox swings its dewalp, do not swing your dewalp, brown ox! It comes rushing along and swinging its dewalp, brown ox." One woman started the song and was stopped by her friend who took over. The pitch of the song was gradually raised. Threshing song.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Khotso (peace)

- Mpara Mosienyane and large group of men, Hugh Tracey

Khutsanyana (An orphan)

- Group of 15 Sotho girls, Hugh Tracey

  • 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.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

King Kong: gala preview in aid of the African Music and Drama Trust

- Goldreich, Arhtur

Klusi Malorato tlaa o bone (Chief Lencoe's horses)

- Group of small children, boys and girls, Hugh Tracey

Ko gae, gae, ko gae (At home, home, at home)

- Large group of about 60 young men, Hugh Tracey

Kob'a ntja (The blanket made of dog skin)

- Mamojela Letsipa, Mahanyane Rakaki, James Mofokeng and group of women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Mamojela Letsipa, Mahanyane Rakaki, James Mofokeng 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/10962/161127 , vital:40594 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0101-13
  • Description: Note the interesting change in the middle of the song. "O Mother! She is wearing a dog's skin blanket. The people despise her. They want me in the cool places, where the Dhlamini live. I am not a Zulu. I am a 'Portuguese'. I, Maboshabane, speak. I speak with a sore heart. I tell you, I am suffering from a stomach-ache. Come and cure me." The singer could not explain the reference to being a 'Portuguese'. African tribesmen who come from the Portuguese territory of Mozambique often refer to themselves as 'Portuguese', i.e. a citizen of Portuguese territory. Mathuela diviner's song with small drum (-14.03-), frame drum (-14.92-) and clapping (-12.03-).
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Koekoe (Partridge)

- Matumo Matsinyane, Hugh Tracey

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