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Lumela Koete(Good morning, sir)

Mabalane kgosi ra bokome (Mabalane, the chief in the North)

Maboko (Praises)

Maboko a Dikgomo (Praises for cattle)

Maboko A Ga Kgosi Gaseitsiwe (Praises of Chief Gaseitsiwe)

Maboko a Kgosi (Chief's praises)

Maboko a Kgosi (Praises for Chief Masibi)

Maboko a Kgosi (Praises for Chief Masibi)

Maboko a Kgosi J. Masibi (Praises for Chief Jan Masibi)

Maboko ga Moswetsi Kgakole (Praises for Moswetsi Kgakole)

Maboko tsa Kgosi J. Masibi II (Praises for Chief Jan Masibi II)

Maboko tsa Kgosi Masibi II (Praises for Chief Masibi II)

Maboko tsa Mothootsile (Praises for Mothootsile)

  • Authors: Mothootsile Leshoko , 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/10962/164213 , vital:41094 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0110-07
  • Description: The praiser was dressed in skins, and wore leather breeches and a skin cap. He was holding a horse-hair switch in one hand and a stick wound round with blue plastic tape. Several women interjected cries and exclamations. The old man explained that his praises were in honour of his totem, the monkey. Praise verse.
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Maeba Masimong (Pigeons in the fields)

Magawalela (People of Mapula)

Magogwe mo Leseng Part 1(Let the honey bear dig out the ant bear)

  • Authors: Mmapane Taunyane with 3 women and 1 man , 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/10962/164231 , vital:41096 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0110-09
  • Description: "Let the honey bear dig out the ant bear!" "Honey bear, look out for the flies, they are getting into the honey!" A woman crept about on the ground with her face in a large pot and her arms stretched out before her, grunting into the pot. This was meant to be in imitation of a honey bear. This one of the games played in the evening. Drinking song with clapping.
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Magogwe mo Leseng Part 2(Let the honey bear dig out the ant bear)

  • Authors: Mmapane Taunyane with 3 women and 1 man , 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/10962/164236 , vital:41097 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0110-10
  • Description: "Let the honey bear dig out the ant bear!" "Honey bear, look out for the flies, they are getting into the honey!" A woman crept about on the ground with her face in a large pot and her arms stretched out before her, grunting into the pot. This was meant to be in imitation of a honey bear. This one of the games played in the evening. Drinking song with clapping.
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Maipetleko

  • Authors: Dingalo and group of young boys and girls , 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/10962/165683 , vital:41271 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0114-07
  • Description: This song os sung with the accompanying dance, in order to ask the Chief's pernission to go to the initiation school. It seems the young would-be initiates must go to the Chief's house and dance and sing the whole night through. The leader of this group was the Chief's cousin. The boys dance, whilst the girls stand in a row, singing and clapping. The boys all carried long thin wands in their hands and were wearing short loin cloths and leg rattles made of the nests of a variety of wasp which resemble the cacoons of the bag-worm, though somewhat larger. The girls wore short skirts. Both boys and girls were between 15 and 16 years of age. Pre-initiation dance song with leg rattles - "Mathlao".
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Majone (Johnnie)

  • Authors: Moroke Molebatsi and group of 19 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/10962/165228 , vital:41220 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0111-11
  • Description: "Johnnie's mother weeps, where did Johnnie die? (she says). Johnnie died when they were cattle-raiding (she says). They killed him when he was following the spoor of his captured cattle. I refused you, so you hated me and went away disappointed." These 19 pipes were made of lenghts of copper tubing. The pitch of each pipe was recorded before each item. From two measurements of the same set of pipes within three weeks, it is clear that the tuning varies from performance to performance, the pitch of each pipe being adjusted by means of the plug a wire ramrod is kept for this purpose. The pipes are used on any occassion, for parties, or recreational purposes. The performerswalk around sideways in a circle, using a simple stamping step or shuffle or leaping like frogs in an anti-clockwise direction. Pipe dance with closed end blown "Ditlhaka" flute ensemble.
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Makholane (Makholane, name)

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