Silang moshoko (Grind and make porridge)

Title: Silang moshoko (Grind and make porridge)
Performer / Recordist: Grace Merementsi and group of about 30 school girls; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk songs, Tswana; Tswana (African people); Folk music; Field recordings
Description / content note: "Grind and make porridge, milk the cows. The sun has set. The children are hungry. The children are getting rheumatic. That man is lean." Some of the children knelt and rubbed the stones on each other, in imitation of grinding whilst the others sang and made appropriate miming gestures to each verse. Children's singing game.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Tswana; Tlharo
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa -- South Africa Disaneng
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1959
Date issued / published: 1959
Identifier: TR0111; 9
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:01:43
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/10962/165177