Teohela Silatsatsi(Go down Silatsatsi)
- School girls of Qeme, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: School girls of Qeme , 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/10962/161821 , vital:40681 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0104-05
- Description: This singing game is done in a circle, each girl kneeling with a stone in her hand. They beat their stones on the ground and in some cases hand them onto the next girl to their right in an anti-clockwise direction. This singing is also found among the Tswana. Singing game.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: School girls of Qeme , 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/10962/161821 , vital:40681 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0104-05
- Description: This singing game is done in a circle, each girl kneeling with a stone in her hand. They beat their stones on the ground and in some cases hand them onto the next girl to their right in an anti-clockwise direction. This singing is also found among the Tswana. Singing game.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Teohela Silatsatsi(Go down Silatsatsi)
- School girls of Qeme, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: School girls of Qeme , 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/10962/161834 , vital:40680 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0104-05
- Description: This singing game is done in a circle, each girl kneeling with a stone in her hand. They beat their stones on the ground and in some cases hand them onto the next girl to their right in an anti-clockwise direction. This singing is also found among the Tswana. Singing game.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: School girls of Qeme , 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/10962/161834 , vital:40680 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0104-05
- Description: This singing game is done in a circle, each girl kneeling with a stone in her hand. They beat their stones on the ground and in some cases hand them onto the next girl to their right in an anti-clockwise direction. This singing is also found among the Tswana. Singing game.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Paulo (Paul)
- School girls of Qeme, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: School girls of Qeme , 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/10962/161816 , vital:40679 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0104-04
- Description: This singing game is done in a circle, each girl kneeling with a stone in her hand. They beat their stones on the ground and in some cases hand them onto the next girl to their right in an anti-clockwise direction. This singing is also found among the Tswana. Singing game.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: School girls of Qeme , 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/10962/161816 , vital:40679 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0104-04
- Description: This singing game is done in a circle, each girl kneeling with a stone in her hand. They beat their stones on the ground and in some cases hand them onto the next girl to their right in an anti-clockwise direction. This singing is also found among the Tswana. Singing game.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Ha tsekoa sebaka (A site was in dispute)
- Sebakeng Khoalenyana and group of 15 men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Sebakeng Khoalenyana and group of 15 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/10962/161899 , vital:40688 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0104-11
- Description: The words were impromptu and the singer said he really could not remember what words he had sung. He just made them up out of his head. It is clear that the deep notes of the Mokorotlo are most satisfying in themselves to the perfromers. Mokorotlo are sung by men together on horseback or walking or even at a drinking party.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Sebakeng Khoalenyana and group of 15 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/10962/161899 , vital:40688 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0104-11
- Description: The words were impromptu and the singer said he really could not remember what words he had sung. He just made them up out of his head. It is clear that the deep notes of the Mokorotlo are most satisfying in themselves to the perfromers. Mokorotlo are sung by men together on horseback or walking or even at a drinking party.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Mabalane kgosi ra bokome (Mabalane, the chief in the North)
- Sebati Dikgageng and group of elderly men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Sebati Dikgageng and group of elderly men , 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/10962/162533 , vital:40944 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0108-07
- Description: "The rule of Mabalane, the chief who ruled in the North was the rule of a drunkard." (a beer strainer). "Motlhotlho" is the word for a beer strainer which is made of woven grass. Pipe dance with Dithloko end-blown reeds
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Sebati Dikgageng and group of elderly men , 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/10962/162533 , vital:40944 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0108-07
- Description: "The rule of Mabalane, the chief who ruled in the North was the rule of a drunkard." (a beer strainer). "Motlhotlho" is the word for a beer strainer which is made of woven grass. Pipe dance with Dithloko end-blown reeds
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Wena Gawazane utotekwa himwinyi Kakowane (You, Gawazane, you will be married to Kakowane)
- Authors: Sechene Kowani , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Africa Mozambique Mabote f-mz
- Language: Tswa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136234 , vital:37352 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR029-06
- Description: Kakowane, he said, was a mulatto living in his district (Self-delectative song with friction bow (Chisambi).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Sechene Kowani , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Africa Mozambique Mabote f-mz
- Language: Tswa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136234 , vital:37352 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR029-06
- Description: Kakowane, he said, was a mulatto living in his district (Self-delectative song with friction bow (Chisambi).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Lisimo
- Authors: Sechene Kowani , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Africa Mozambique Mabote f-mz
- Language: Tswa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136225 , vital:37351 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR029-05
- Description: The stick with which the serrations on the bow were rubbed, had a small rattle attached to it. The performer made the squeaking sounds by blowing inwards over the palm ribbon, in the same way as children do with a blade of grass. -He stopped the ribbon with first and third finger of the left hand. Self-delectative song with fiction bow (Chisambi).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Sechene Kowani , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Africa Mozambique Mabote f-mz
- Language: Tswa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136225 , vital:37351 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR029-05
- Description: The stick with which the serrations on the bow were rubbed, had a small rattle attached to it. The performer made the squeaking sounds by blowing inwards over the palm ribbon, in the same way as children do with a blade of grass. -He stopped the ribbon with first and third finger of the left hand. Self-delectative song with fiction bow (Chisambi).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ho-ho-ho-ho ba bacha (To the young men)
- Authors: Seforo Mosese , 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/10962/162003 , vital:40747 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0105-03
- Description: "Oh, the young men, the men of LeLerotholi's place are black and are called horse-eaters. Your guns are used for shooting pigeons, and your spears for hunting mice. Let Mpaleng's father speak. Youe child looks like its father, your child looks like its maternal uncle, I resemble Mokhehle of Mokoalibe. Dun-coloured with long tears. Dun-coloured and milked by women. The child of Seforo's wife is the one who provided a bachelor with a bed." Mokorotlo riding song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Seforo Mosese , 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/10962/162003 , vital:40747 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0105-03
- Description: "Oh, the young men, the men of LeLerotholi's place are black and are called horse-eaters. Your guns are used for shooting pigeons, and your spears for hunting mice. Let Mpaleng's father speak. Youe child looks like its father, your child looks like its maternal uncle, I resemble Mokhehle of Mokoalibe. Dun-coloured with long tears. Dun-coloured and milked by women. The child of Seforo's wife is the one who provided a bachelor with a bed." Mokorotlo riding song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Oa mona Letsie (You see Letsie) Chief of Leribe.
- Authors: Seforo Mosese , 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/10962/162012 , vital:40749 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0105-04
- Description: "You see Letsie, Leribe where there is a beautiful small mountain. Brakpan with its small pretty hill. My mother's Mosinoa, mother's child. You see Seforo, you see Tefolo. Mosinoa, Moea's child, is crying. He cries although nobody has hit him." Mokorotlo riding song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Seforo Mosese , 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/10962/162012 , vital:40749 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0105-04
- Description: "You see Letsie, Leribe where there is a beautiful small mountain. Brakpan with its small pretty hill. My mother's Mosinoa, mother's child. You see Seforo, you see Tefolo. Mosinoa, Moea's child, is crying. He cries although nobody has hit him." Mokorotlo riding song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Kawala milonga kalila kate (The ferry men are complaining about the Zambezi being in flood)
- Segareti Chirumpu, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Segareti Chirumpu , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139001 , vital:37694 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR046-07
- Description: When the Zambezi is in flood the ferry men cannot paddle their canoes across. They do this ferrying to help people across but we are told, are not paid for their services. Self-delectative song with Kankobela mbira, fan-shaped, external resonator and mirliton.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Segareti Chirumpu , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139001 , vital:37694 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR046-07
- Description: When the Zambezi is in flood the ferry men cannot paddle their canoes across. They do this ferrying to help people across but we are told, are not paid for their services. Self-delectative song with Kankobela mbira, fan-shaped, external resonator and mirliton.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Kugama II
- Segbe and Ndongo men and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Segbe and Ndongo men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Bangba (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Faradje f-cg
- Language: Ndongo
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166602 , vital:41384 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0119-07
- Description: Probably a variation. Topical song with 5 stringed horizontal harp "domo" likembe, lisanzo and "sese" rattle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Segbe and Ndongo men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Bangba (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Faradje f-cg
- Language: Ndongo
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166602 , vital:41384 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0119-07
- Description: Probably a variation. Topical song with 5 stringed horizontal harp "domo" likembe, lisanzo and "sese" rattle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Kugama I
- Segbe and Ndongo men and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Segbe and Ndongo men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Bangba (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Faradje f-cg
- Language: Ndongo
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166597 , vital:41383 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0119-06
- Description: "I will never starve for my brother will feed me." The song was sung in Ndongo with a mixture of Lingala (the local lingus franca). Topical song with 5 stringed horizontal harp "domo" likembe, lisanzo and "sese" rattle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Segbe and Ndongo men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Bangba (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Faradje f-cg
- Language: Ndongo
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166597 , vital:41383 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0119-06
- Description: "I will never starve for my brother will feed me." The song was sung in Ndongo with a mixture of Lingala (the local lingus franca). Topical song with 5 stringed horizontal harp "domo" likembe, lisanzo and "sese" rattle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Chyoko
- Segbe and Ndongo men and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Segbe and Ndongo men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Bangba (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Faradje f-cg
- Language: Ndongo
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166615 , vital:41385 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0119-08
- Description: The singers lament the death of a friend and in so doing demonstrate the fact that Africans celebrate their funerals with dances and apparently gay singing. Sung after a funeral, with harp, likembe and basket rattle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Segbe and Ndongo men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Bangba (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Faradje f-cg
- Language: Ndongo
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166615 , vital:41385 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0119-08
- Description: The singers lament the death of a friend and in so doing demonstrate the fact that Africans celebrate their funerals with dances and apparently gay singing. Sung after a funeral, with harp, likembe and basket rattle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Terene ea malahla (The train)
- Authors: Sehloho , 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/10962/162238 , vital:40823 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0106-07
- Description: "The train has arrived at Phefeni."Moqoqopelo step dance with slapping together of boots.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Sehloho , 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/10962/162238 , vital:40823 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0106-07
- Description: "The train has arrived at Phefeni."Moqoqopelo step dance with slapping together of boots.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Maboko a Kgosi (Chief's praises)
- Authors: Sei Robega , 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/10962/164194 , vital:41092 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0110-05
- Description: The praise is composed by the speaker or praiser themselves. Praise in verse.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Sei Robega , 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/10962/164194 , vital:41092 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0110-05
- Description: The praise is composed by the speaker or praiser themselves. Praise in verse.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Baryaningwe wa Ntwali
- Authors: Sekivura , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Kinyarwanda--Rwanda , Folk dance music , Tutsi (African people) , Africa Rwanda Rugerero f-rw
- Language: Kinyarwanda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/148773 , vital:38772 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR057-12
- Description: Baryaningwe, son of Ntwali. "I, professional thief, I went to a place called Ruagi and stole a cow, but the owner saw me just as I was driving it out. So I was caught. I was taken into a hut and tied up. In my misery, I was asked for an Inanga zither and began to sing. I sang so well that the women and children begged for my release. I was freed but I did not know that my fellow-thieves had gone to tell my family what had happened. So whilst I was singing to all these people my relatives came to my help and my enemies spell-bound by my singing were taken unawares and thus I escaped. Legend. Recitative to instrumental accompaniment with Inanga trough zither.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Sekivura , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Kinyarwanda--Rwanda , Folk dance music , Tutsi (African people) , Africa Rwanda Rugerero f-rw
- Language: Kinyarwanda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/148773 , vital:38772 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR057-12
- Description: Baryaningwe, son of Ntwali. "I, professional thief, I went to a place called Ruagi and stole a cow, but the owner saw me just as I was driving it out. So I was caught. I was taken into a hut and tied up. In my misery, I was asked for an Inanga zither and began to sing. I sang so well that the women and children begged for my release. I was freed but I did not know that my fellow-thieves had gone to tell my family what had happened. So whilst I was singing to all these people my relatives came to my help and my enemies spell-bound by my singing were taken unawares and thus I escaped. Legend. Recitative to instrumental accompaniment with Inanga trough zither.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Meru washi
- Senduwa Selukoki with Meru men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Senduwa Selukoki with Meru men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Chaga (African people) -- Music , Meru (African people) -- Music , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Arusha f-tz
- Language: Meru
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173859 , vital:42416 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR153-02
- Description: "I have a little sister whom I love dearly. I like the Meru people because they are friendly." A young man stands out in front of the files of dancers to lead the singing. The Wembe horn can be heard during the responses. Meru washi dance song for men and women with Wembe side blown horn.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Senduwa Selukoki with Meru men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Chaga (African people) -- Music , Meru (African people) -- Music , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Arusha f-tz
- Language: Meru
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173859 , vital:42416 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR153-02
- Description: "I have a little sister whom I love dearly. I like the Meru people because they are friendly." A young man stands out in front of the files of dancers to lead the singing. The Wembe horn can be heard during the responses. Meru washi dance song for men and women with Wembe side blown horn.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Kunyai
- Senduwa Selukoki with Meru men and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Senduwa Selukoki with Meru men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Chaga (African people) -- Music , Meru (African people) -- Music , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Arusha f-tz
- Language: Meru
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173901 , vital:42420 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR153-06
- Description: Lesu, the composer of this song was a martinet in matters of dance dress. He would turn away dancers who were not properly equipped. Well dressed dancers would be brought out in front as an example for others to copy. A Meru dance is most colourful. The girls being adorned with coloured bead necklets and both men and women paint patterns in ochre colours on their faces, from vermillion to ultramarine. The complex structure of this song is most interesting and elusive. Ufina dance song for men and women.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Senduwa Selukoki with Meru men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Chaga (African people) -- Music , Meru (African people) -- Music , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Arusha f-tz
- Language: Meru
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173901 , vital:42420 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR153-06
- Description: Lesu, the composer of this song was a martinet in matters of dance dress. He would turn away dancers who were not properly equipped. Well dressed dancers would be brought out in front as an example for others to copy. A Meru dance is most colourful. The girls being adorned with coloured bead necklets and both men and women paint patterns in ochre colours on their faces, from vermillion to ultramarine. The complex structure of this song is most interesting and elusive. Ufina dance song for men and women.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Re roala masale (We wear earings)
- Seponono Mokemane and group of men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Seponono Mokemane and 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/10962/162209 , vital:40820 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0106-04
- Description: "We wear earing and they become us." Lengae men's initiation song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Seponono Mokemane and 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/10962/162209 , vital:40820 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0106-04
- Description: "We wear earing and they become us." Lengae men's initiation song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
A re eng
- Serakalala Abotsen and large group of middle-aged and elderly men, Tracey, Hugh
- Authors: Serakalala Abotsen and large group of middle-aged and elderly men , Tracey, Hugh
- 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
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162497 , vital:40940 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0108-03
- Description: "Let us go, let us go to the Great palace to see our senior, our Chief Tshosa Mogoloarona, he is calling." The whole group danced enthusisastically during the performance. Walking song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Serakalala Abotsen and large group of middle-aged and elderly men , Tracey, Hugh
- 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
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162497 , vital:40940 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0108-03
- Description: "Let us go, let us go to the Great palace to see our senior, our Chief Tshosa Mogoloarona, he is calling." The whole group danced enthusisastically during the performance. Walking song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959