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Eh! Pula aene, e le mogogo (Field Card)

of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR113 (1959) , 2 page(s)

"Eh Dumedisa Moeng Dumela Moeng Bola kwa o tswang." "Greetings to the visitors, Good day to you, visitors. Tell us where you come from." This song of greeting was followed by a series of praises, spoken by different men, in honour of their own village, Motswedi, which is a pleasantly sited village lying on the slo...

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Ekigano kya Miyanda (Field Card)

of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR135 (1950) , 2 page(s)

There was once a brother and sister. The brother was killed and left the sister lamenting. She sang a magical song and the rats came and ate her brother's body and then built it up again as perfectly as before and so he became alive again. The audience respond with the word 'Tewere.'

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Ekigano kya Miyanda (Track)

of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR135 , 5 mins

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Ekigano ky’obusingye (Field Card)

of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR135 (1950) , 2 page(s)

A short story account of how the English brought peace to Ankole in 1890. The second man utters the usual response to each line of the story.

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Ekigano ky’obusingye (Track)

of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR135 , 1 min

A short story account of how the English brought peace to Ankole in 1890. The second man utters the usual response to each line of the story.

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Endai kwenyu Watonga, usara machinda (Field Card)

of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR085 (1959) , 2 page(s)

This item is based upon a well known and traditional melody of the region which has changed little, (if at all in the last thirty years when first recorded by me {H.T.}), the only distinguishable difference merely reflecting the relative ability of the various players. This style of playing and the type of Mbira u...

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Ga re a nwa ka nkgwana pele (Field Card)

of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR117 (1959) , 2 page(s)

These phrases were spoken by the brother of the man who killed the lion and the praises are his father's praises, recited while the lion's skin was being presented to the Chief Murusi Pilane.

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Godo (Field Card)

of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR082 (1958) , 2 page(s)

The story teller is a newphew of the chief Takawarasha. One day when a hungry minstrel was walking through the country he found a woman spreading her mealie meal in the sun and asked her for some of it. She said 'I cannot do so or I will be beaten tonight.' 'Who will beat you?' hea asked. She said 'My mother.' so...

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Godo (Track)

of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR082 , 2 mins

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Godumaduma gwa Mosadi (Field Card)

of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR117 (1959) , 1 page(s)

There was once a child who was with other children and met a man who liked her. He asked to the child to pull a splinter from his thumb. For that service many cattle appeared magically and the child was asked to choose one. The other children became jealous and when they passed a large hole in the ground they thre...

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