Kerefisi

Title: Kerefisi
Performer / Recordist: Taba Ramothobi and large group of men; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk songs, Sotho; Sotho (African people); Folk music; Field recordings
Description / content note: This song refers to the late Paramount Chief Griffiths Lerotholi who was the father-in-law of Mantsebo, the present female regent of the Sotho people (1959). The words are highly poetic, difficult to translate. " Griffiths - 'Griff' of Lerotholi, Griffiths, the promiscous, piercer of women, water snake of Mokhachane (Moshoeshoe's fater). Civet cat, crocodile, one-eyed snake. Rasenqu (Father of the Orange river, the Senqu). You should prosper!" Mokorotlo songs to be sung on horseback.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Sotho
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa Lesotho Maseru
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1959
Date issued / published: 1959
Identifier: TR0103; 2
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:04:15
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/10962/161259