Ei, ei, ei, ngoana oa l-la (Ei, ei, ei, the child cries)
- Agnes Lekhoti and Nuku Lesoetsa, Hugh Tracey
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Mamosi oa Theoloa ke mang? (Who will bring Mamosi down?
- Mapheelo Maklelebe and large group of Sotho women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Mapheelo Maklelebe and large group of 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/10962/161349 , vital:40619 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0103-08
- Description: "Who will bring Mamosi down? The 'municipality' is the wizard of the whites. He has brought the railway train into 'Naesifili'. At my home at Majara Leshoboro's place. Smoke drifts far away out in the veld. I have no Chief, I am ruled by a woman. Mother Mantsala, give me food. When horses race for prizes, yours runs for nothing. My family is disappointed with Mateseliso. It does not like people who cover their heads with cloth. I have not come here to see you, I have come to condole with you." The 'Municipality', they explained, is looked upon as a single person, a person of wealth who can do things rather like the Government. Mokibo women's kneeling dances, with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Mapheelo Maklelebe and large group of 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/10962/161349 , vital:40619 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0103-08
- Description: "Who will bring Mamosi down? The 'municipality' is the wizard of the whites. He has brought the railway train into 'Naesifili'. At my home at Majara Leshoboro's place. Smoke drifts far away out in the veld. I have no Chief, I am ruled by a woman. Mother Mantsala, give me food. When horses race for prizes, yours runs for nothing. My family is disappointed with Mateseliso. It does not like people who cover their heads with cloth. I have not come here to see you, I have come to condole with you." The 'Municipality', they explained, is looked upon as a single person, a person of wealth who can do things rather like the Government. Mokibo women's kneeling dances, with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Seolhla (song)
- Jane Mosese and large group of men, Hugh Tracey
- 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
- 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
Ko gae, gae, ko gae (At home, home, at home)
- Large group of about 60 young men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Large group of 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/10962/162419 , vital:40929 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0107-06
- Description: On this occasion, the ululating of the women and the general festive air was enhanced because of the singers being freshly returned from their initiation school. "At home, home, at home. That which eats the men's cattle, the animal. That which eats the men's sheep. That which eats the men's horses. It has a portruding forehead, the animal. It has an odd furrowed brow, the animal, and it has claws." Male initiation song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Large group of 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/10962/162419 , vital:40929 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0107-06
- Description: On this occasion, the ululating of the women and the general festive air was enhanced because of the singers being freshly returned from their initiation school. "At home, home, at home. That which eats the men's cattle, the animal. That which eats the men's sheep. That which eats the men's horses. It has a portruding forehead, the animal. It has an odd furrowed brow, the animal, and it has claws." Male initiation song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
He! MaRahia (Hey! Russians)
- Mamojela Lesojane and large group of Sotho women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Mamojela Lesojane and large group of 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/10962/161476 , vital:40632 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0103-09
- Description: "Mantsebo(the Paramount Chief Regent) is a jealous woman. She has taken children away from their parents and given them to the 'Russians'." The AmaRussia is one of the notorious gangs in the Johannesburg native townships. The children, they suggest, may have been girls intended for immoral purposes. Hoeing song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Mamojela Lesojane and large group of 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/10962/161476 , vital:40632 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0103-09
- Description: "Mantsebo(the Paramount Chief Regent) is a jealous woman. She has taken children away from their parents and given them to the 'Russians'." The AmaRussia is one of the notorious gangs in the Johannesburg native townships. The children, they suggest, may have been girls intended for immoral purposes. Hoeing song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Mphe, mphe ea lapisa, Mokoena (A beggar goes hungry, Mokoena)
- Monki Mofolo and group of 8 men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Monki Mofolo and group of 8 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/10962/161983 , vital:40744 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0105-01
- Description: "Mokoena" is a Seboko name meaning "of the crocodile". "A beggar goes hungry. Mokoena, a man of Makoli's household. There is a gun in Letsabisa's house, you will not handle it, you will only handle it when everyone is dead, we Libe's bulldogs, nip each other. Thanks to the word Lekana spoke. Deliver us from temptations, Chief!" Mokorotlo riding song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Monki Mofolo and group of 8 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/10962/161983 , vital:40744 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0105-01
- Description: "Mokoena" is a Seboko name meaning "of the crocodile". "A beggar goes hungry. Mokoena, a man of Makoli's household. There is a gun in Letsabisa's house, you will not handle it, you will only handle it when everyone is dead, we Libe's bulldogs, nip each other. Thanks to the word Lekana spoke. Deliver us from temptations, Chief!" Mokorotlo riding song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Mamsadi msadi evamakguva (A fair woman is our woman)
- Nelson Siboza and the Montanas Brothers, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Nelson Siboza and the Montanas Brothers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Pedi (African people) , Folk music , Africa South Africa Mataffin, Nelspruit, Northern Transvaal f-sa
- Language: Northern Sotho, Pedi, Sepedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153250 , vital:39424 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR075-10
- Description: The youngsters sho sang this song represent a growing class of semi-detribalised boys born and brought up in an urban industrialised environment. Their main musical stimulus is a few gramophone records and distributed from Johannesburg and elsewhere and their own original setting of these songs or their imitation of the style does them credit. Party song with guitar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Nelson Siboza and the Montanas Brothers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Pedi (African people) , Folk music , Africa South Africa Mataffin, Nelspruit, Northern Transvaal f-sa
- Language: Northern Sotho, Pedi, Sepedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153250 , vital:39424 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR075-10
- Description: The youngsters sho sang this song represent a growing class of semi-detribalised boys born and brought up in an urban industrialised environment. Their main musical stimulus is a few gramophone records and distributed from Johannesburg and elsewhere and their own original setting of these songs or their imitation of the style does them credit. Party song with guitar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Krubo
- Group of Hlangwini men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of Hlangwini men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-sa
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151300 , vital:39049 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-02
- Description: "When we were going to Swendlana, the watchers said: 'attach', and the whole world burst." The translation of this item, as given on the spot, is far from clear and needs further elucidation. The song was sung, they say, during the last century when the Hlangwini people came down from Zululand and ousted the Sotho. Ihubo old fighting song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of Hlangwini men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-sa
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151300 , vital:39049 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-02
- Description: "When we were going to Swendlana, the watchers said: 'attach', and the whole world burst." The translation of this item, as given on the spot, is far from clear and needs further elucidation. The song was sung, they say, during the last century when the Hlangwini people came down from Zululand and ousted the Sotho. Ihubo old fighting song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Hai li holope (Who will bring Mamosi down?)
- Mamogeneholo Lephoto, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Mamogeneholo Lephoto , 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/10962/161334 , vital:40617 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0103-07
- Description: "Let them gallop girls, let them gallop! I will not leave mu child behind. Donki is as close to me as my belt. Donki is the belt which I tie around my waist. The Semani people have released me, so I can go away. They have allowed me to take my children and go. I am not afraid of trying up my blankets and going. Girls, you are not backing me up (in singing). You sound half-hearted (addressed to the other singers with her). I am in the care of a christian woman. If I have had a meal at the Chief's place it is enough. I do not like food given me by common people. Mokibo women's kneeling dances, with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Mamogeneholo Lephoto , 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/10962/161334 , vital:40617 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0103-07
- Description: "Let them gallop girls, let them gallop! I will not leave mu child behind. Donki is as close to me as my belt. Donki is the belt which I tie around my waist. The Semani people have released me, so I can go away. They have allowed me to take my children and go. I am not afraid of trying up my blankets and going. Girls, you are not backing me up (in singing). You sound half-hearted (addressed to the other singers with her). I am in the care of a christian woman. If I have had a meal at the Chief's place it is enough. I do not like food given me by common people. Mokibo women's kneeling dances, with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Ntoeng (To the war)
- Mpara Masienyane and large group of men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Mpara Masienyane 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 Mokoroane f-lo
- Language: Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162182 , vital:40817 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0106-01
- Description: This Lengae is sung when boys are going up to the initiation school. "Maluke's husband captured Seleke, a cow for which there had been much fighting. A question is asked about Maphaleng's grave. 'Is it where we have been fighting? Who do you say should take me to war? I am afraid when men go out armed.' Men, you do not make sufficient sound. Is it because of all that beard? Lengae men's initiation song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Mpara Masienyane 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 Mokoroane f-lo
- Language: Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162182 , vital:40817 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0106-01
- Description: This Lengae is sung when boys are going up to the initiation school. "Maluke's husband captured Seleke, a cow for which there had been much fighting. A question is asked about Maphaleng's grave. 'Is it where we have been fighting? Who do you say should take me to war? I am afraid when men go out armed.' Men, you do not make sufficient sound. Is it because of all that beard? Lengae men's initiation song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Marumo (Spears)
- Makopo Macheli and group of about 12 men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Makopo Macheli and group of about 12 men , 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/10962/161148 , vital:40596 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0102-01
- Description: In the Lithoko following the song the speaker used the phrase: "Whe spring kisses the summer" a typical poetic phrase, they say characteristic of Lithoko praises. This Mokorotlo was accompanied by a slow and stately stamping dance, raising the legs slowly upwards, then with a bend of the knee they bring the foot back under the body and stamp. Mokorotlo riding song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Makopo Macheli and group of about 12 men , 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/10962/161148 , vital:40596 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0102-01
- Description: In the Lithoko following the song the speaker used the phrase: "Whe spring kisses the summer" a typical poetic phrase, they say characteristic of Lithoko praises. This Mokorotlo was accompanied by a slow and stately stamping dance, raising the legs slowly upwards, then with a bend of the knee they bring the foot back under the body and stamp. Mokorotlo riding song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Khotso (peace)
- Mpara Mosienyane and large group of men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Mpara Mosienyane and large group of 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 Mokoroane f-lo
- Language: Tswana/Rolong
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162451 , vital:40934 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0107-10
- Description: "The peace at the place from which we come, is oppresive. There they are, climbing the mountain. Let them alone, they have been cursed by the gods." Riding song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Mpara Mosienyane and large group of 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 Mokoroane f-lo
- Language: Tswana/Rolong
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162451 , vital:40934 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0107-10
- Description: "The peace at the place from which we come, is oppresive. There they are, climbing the mountain. Let them alone, they have been cursed by the gods." Riding song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
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
Lumela Koete(Good morning, sir)
- Mahehlohonolo Lebesa and Maletsoara Johane and Sotho women, Hugh Tracey
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Lesole lea lema (The soilder is an indulgent man)
- Nkhethoa Leuta and Silas Khiba, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Nkhethoa Leuta and Silas Khiba , 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/10962/161272 , vital:40611 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0103-03
- Description: "The soilder, Mpoi's relative is a violent man. The cow which has been claimed by Malito custom is a soilder boy. It has happened in spite of the 'cousin' (relationship). We, Mpoi's relatives, are Christians. We have been given the staff of Christianity." The staff or rod is meant to indicate the badge or symbol of the professing person, in this case, his religious association. The Malito custom is such that a thing dropped or neglected can be claimed by another, like 'Snap' in the child's game. Mokorotlo songs to be sung on horseback.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Nkhethoa Leuta and Silas Khiba , 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/10962/161272 , vital:40611 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0103-03
- Description: "The soilder, Mpoi's relative is a violent man. The cow which has been claimed by Malito custom is a soilder boy. It has happened in spite of the 'cousin' (relationship). We, Mpoi's relatives, are Christians. We have been given the staff of Christianity." The staff or rod is meant to indicate the badge or symbol of the professing person, in this case, his religious association. The Malito custom is such that a thing dropped or neglected can be claimed by another, like 'Snap' in the child's game. Mokorotlo songs to be sung on horseback.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Ramanaka (Ramanaka,name)
- Motlatsi Raseile and small group of men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Motlatsi Raseile 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/10962/162192 , vital:40818 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0106-02
- Description: This Lengae is sung when boys are going up to the initiation school. "At Mojela's place, my ho,e, Tebang is ruled by boys. I am a companion of girls and boys. A companion of Motlatsi and Maparaka. I remember the well-dressed Moeketsi. You speak of me or of whom? The modern young men or the modern young girls? Tebang is ruled by Chief Thabo. Tsakholo on the pool, boys. Mu mother and father are weeping. Weeping for their son."Lengae men's initiation song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Motlatsi Raseile 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/10962/162192 , vital:40818 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0106-02
- Description: This Lengae is sung when boys are going up to the initiation school. "At Mojela's place, my ho,e, Tebang is ruled by boys. I am a companion of girls and boys. A companion of Motlatsi and Maparaka. I remember the well-dressed Moeketsi. You speak of me or of whom? The modern young men or the modern young girls? Tebang is ruled by Chief Thabo. Tsakholo on the pool, boys. Mu mother and father are weeping. Weeping for their son."Lengae men's initiation song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Mangoane phutholla kobo (Stretch out the blanket, Aunt)
- Authors: not defined , 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/10962/161303 , vital:40614 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0103-06
- Description: "Aunt, stretch out the blanket. There are two of us. Stretch out the blanket, I will be coming, I am going out to smoke. When I leave here, going away. Montsala remain here and look after my children. Look after Mamotolo and Malerato and Toma. Toma, look after these children of mine particulary Mamotolo and Malerato. I looks as if I will be going away. I feel I am going. I really feel I will be crossing the river." 'To cross the river' in Sesotho means "I will be going to the Union of South Africa" with reference to the Calendon river which forms part of the border between the two countries. Women's party song, with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: not defined , 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/10962/161303 , vital:40614 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0103-06
- Description: "Aunt, stretch out the blanket. There are two of us. Stretch out the blanket, I will be coming, I am going out to smoke. When I leave here, going away. Montsala remain here and look after my children. Look after Mamotolo and Malerato and Toma. Toma, look after these children of mine particulary Mamotolo and Malerato. I looks as if I will be going away. I feel I am going. I really feel I will be crossing the river." 'To cross the river' in Sesotho means "I will be going to the Union of South Africa" with reference to the Calendon river which forms part of the border between the two countries. Women's party song, with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Hela Banana (Hey! Girls!)
- 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/10962/161137 , vital:40595 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0101-14
- Description: "Hey! girls, the reaping machine is making a noise. At sunrise I reap. Mother Matabo, men, Father Manyetse. At sunrise, at Koali's village. Mother Matholoana, the Chieftainess." The song is interspersed with Lithoko and exhortations to throw away medicines and charms. Mathuela diviner's song with small drum (-14.03-), frame drum (-14.92-) and clapping (-12.03-).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- 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/10962/161137 , vital:40595 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0101-14
- Description: "Hey! girls, the reaping machine is making a noise. At sunrise I reap. Mother Matabo, men, Father Manyetse. At sunrise, at Koali's village. Mother Matholoana, the Chieftainess." The song is interspersed with Lithoko and exhortations to throw away medicines and charms. Mathuela diviner's song with small drum (-14.03-), frame drum (-14.92-) and clapping (-12.03-).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Ngoana Mosinoa thola (Keep quiet, Mosinoa's child)
- Mosinoa Moea and group of 20 men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Mosinoa Moea and group of 20 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/10962/162063 , vital:40753 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0105-06
- Description: 'Keep quiet, Mosinoa's child. Mother's child, keep quiet. I like you, I am afraid of you." Work song for braying and for threshing.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Mosinoa Moea and group of 20 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/10962/162063 , vital:40753 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0105-06
- Description: 'Keep quiet, Mosinoa's child. Mother's child, keep quiet. I like you, I am afraid of you." Work song for braying and for threshing.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Sake tlo bone sekate (Sake, come and see the damage done on the lands)
- Group of Sotho women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of Sotho women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-sa
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151590 , vital:39145 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-14
- Description: The four leading women sang this song on their knees, and the principal singer also mimed the torso, hip and arm movements of the dance whilst she sang. Mokihibo dance for women (knee dance) with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of Sotho women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-sa
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151590 , vital:39145 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-14
- Description: The four leading women sang this song on their knees, and the principal singer also mimed the torso, hip and arm movements of the dance whilst she sang. Mokihibo dance for women (knee dance) with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957