Marumo (Spears)

Title: Marumo (Spears)
Performer / Recordist: Makopo Macheli and group of about 12 men; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk songs, Sotho; Sotho (African people); Folk music; Field recordings
Description / content note: 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.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Sotho
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa Lesotho Berea
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1959
Date issued / published: 1959
Identifier: TR0102; 1
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:05:52
File format: wav
Sample Rate: 15 ips reel
Digitisation (original): 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo; Studer B67 Recorder; Sound Forge V.6
Rights Holder: International Library of African Music
License: CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Access Rights: Public
Is Part Of: ILAM Hugh Tracey Sound of Africa Series
Format: audio/mp3
Genre: field recordings
handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161148