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Krubo

- Group of Hlangwini men, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

Mngoma uvelaphi

- Group of young Hlangwini men, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

Mngoma uvelaphi

- Group of young Hlangwini men, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

Ndiyinyama emnandi kwabaka bawo

- Group of Hlangwini men, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

Uyabaleka wemungoma hmu

- Group of Hlangwini men, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

Ahe likalakati

- Group of Sotho women, Hugh Tracey

Ezimaqiya (A woman's headdress)

- Group of old Hlubi men, Hugh Tracey

Ha setimela se tsamaea (While the train goes)

- Lesholu Molai, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Lesholu Molai , 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/10962/151601 , vital:39146 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-15
  • Description: The player said he had made his Sitolotolo only that day, so it had not had time to dry out and resonate the sound properly. Consequently the overtones resonated in the month were relatively weak. Self-delectative song with Sitolotolo mouth bow. (Tube with 2 end sections of bow-braced).
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Hee ka bale (There are the horsemen, there they are!)

- Group of Sotho men, Hugh Tracey

Khajoane (The eagle)

- Sotho men and women, Hugh Tracey

Khajoane (The mountain eagle)

- Theko Moshesh, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Theko Moshesh , 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/10962/151610 , vital:39147 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-16
  • Description: The Lesiba is a wind blown stringed instrument, mostly played by herd boys as they herd their cattle on the hills. It consists of a slightly bent stick of abour 36-40 long. Along one side is strained a string, sometimes of horse hair or sinew, to one end of which is attached a section of fowl's quill. This is held in place by placing it between small double wedges held firmly in a small hole drilled into that end of the stick. Self-delectative song with Lesiba stick zither with quill.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

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.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Mngoma uvelaphi (Hullo, where do you come from?)

- Group of Hlangwini men, Hugh Tracey

Mngoma uvelaphi (Hullo, where do you come from?)

- Group of Hlangwini men, Hugh Tracey

Mokhoroane (The dove)

- Theko Moshesh, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Theko Moshesh , 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/10962/151619 , vital:39148 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-17
  • Description: The Lesiba is a wind blown stringed instrument, mostly played by herd boys as they herd their cattle on the hills. It consists of a slightly bent stick of abour 36-40 long. Along one side is strained a string, sometimes of horse hair or sinew, to one end of which is attached a section of fowl's quill. This is held in place by placing it between small double wedges held firmly in a small hole drilled into that end of the stick. Self-delectative song with Lesiba stick zither with quill.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Ndiy' nyama emnandi kwabaka bawo (I am good meat)

- Group of Hlangwini women, Hugh Tracey

Nteta ya nkosi (Chief's speech)

- Headman Bennett Baleni, Hugh Tracey

Sake tlo bone sekate (Sake, come and see the damage done on the lands)

- Group of Sotho women, Hugh Tracey

Tenshin (Attention)

- Sotho men and women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Sotho men and 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/10962/151533 , vital:39139 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-09
  • Description: "We stand at attention whenever we see him." Meaning we respect the Chief and salute him respectfully whenever we see him. The old lady, leading the song was the mother-in-law of the Chief and therefore was not allowed to mention her son-in-law's name, according to the 'Hlonipa' custom by which a woman must speak in synonyms of her husband and his family. Agricultural and domestic work song for hoeing.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Thali ea ma tsoana (The lightening of the Chieftainess)

- Sotho men and women, Hugh Tracey

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