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Title:Tchoe Jazz track 5
TSERa_RA_track05
A discourse-based documentation of San varieties in the Western Sandveld Region (Central district, Botswana)
Contributor:Ranamane
Contributor (depositor):Lee
Contributor (interviewer):Scobie
Coverage:Botswana
Date:2017-02-01
Description:Ranamane Abaye performs a song from a repertoire he calls "Bushman Jazz" or "Tchoe Jazz". This song is called tsam kuun, which means "letʼs go". This is a melancholic song that symbolises social dynamics between San hunter-gatherers and other ethnic groups. It is sung from the perspective of a Tchoe man who bemoans that the more powerful ethnic groups blame him for all that goes wrong because he is a San man. So he says to his wife "letʼs go" - letʼs go and hear what they are blaming us for this time.
This bundle includes the video and audio recording of the song, which has a provisional English translation. In a second recording, Ranamane and Scobie talk about the song and its meaning in Setswana, followed by a translation into English by Scobie.
In this session Ranamane Abaye is recorded singing his self-composed music whilst playing guitar. After the song is finished, Ranamane discusses the song with Scobie Noel - a long time acquaintance of Ranamane and director of the Khama III Memorial Museum - in the gardens of which the session is taking place. The session is recorded by Lee Pratchett.
Ranamane is also the main informant for the southeastermost variety of Tshwa - known locally as Tchoe, Tcoa or Tcibitcoa.
Director of the Khama Memorial Museum in Serowe, Central District, Botswana. Assisted Rainer Vossen during his research with the San in the 1990s.
Format:video/mp4
audio/x-wav
text/x-eaf+xml
Identifier:oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1286452
IPF0239
Identifier (URI):https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI1286452%23
Publisher:Lee Pratchett
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Subject:Singing
Kua language
Subject (ISO639):tyu
Type:Video
Audio

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Archive:  Endangered Languages Archive
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OaiIdentifier:  oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1286452
DateStamp:  2019-04-25
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Citation: Lee (depositor); Ranamane; Scobie (interviewer). 2017-02-01. Lee Pratchett.
Terms: area_Africa country_BW iso639_tyu

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Country: Botswana
Area: Africa


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