Ntoeng (To the war)

Title: Ntoeng (To the war)
Performer / Recordist: Mpara Masienyane and large group of men; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk songs, Sotho; Sotho (African people); Folk music; Field recordings
Description / content note: This Lengae is sung when boys are going up to the initiation school. "Maluke's husband captured Seleke, a cow for which there had been much fighting. A question is asked about Maphaleng's grave. 'Is it where we have been fighting? Who do you say should take me to war? I am afraid when men go out armed.' Men, you do not make sufficient sound. Is it because of all that beard? Lengae men's initiation song.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Sotho
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa Lesotho Mokoroane
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1959
Date issued / published: 1959
Identifier: TR0106; 1
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:03:00
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/10962/162182