Serago ko gae ngwania maphokoje (Serago, at home, the child of the female jackal

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Title: Serago ko gae ngwania maphokoje (Serago, at home, the child of the female jackal
Performer / Recordist: Large group of about 60 young men; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk songs, Sotho; Folk songs, Tswana; Sotho-Tswana languages; Tswana (African people); Sotho (African people); Folk music; Field recordings
Description / content note: On this occasion, the ululating of the women and the general festive air was enhanced because of the singers being freshly returned from their initiation school. "Serago, at home child of the (female) jackal. The shoe, at home, child of the jackal let us go home! Because we have died and vanished, never to return. The sound of the gun was heard in the hills and the gun that was shooting was the Europeans's." Male initiation song.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Tswana; Rolong
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa Lesotho Tshidilamolomo
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1959
Date issued / published: 1959
Identifier: TR0107; 5
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:03:12
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/10962/162410

Item sets: Hugh Tracey Sound of Africa Series

Serago ko gae ngwania maphokoje (Serago, at home, the child of the female jackal

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