jeliya

From Bambara jeliya (literally “being a jeli; 'jeli-ness'”).

jeliya (uncountable)

1. The traditional music of the jeli (or griot) caste of the Mande people.
   • 2013, Durán, Lucy, “POYI! Bamana jeli music, Mali and the blues”, in Journal of African Cultural Studies, volume 9, number 25, Routledge, DOI:10.1080/13696815.2013.792725, JSTOR 42005320, page 231:

     In the absence of Bamana music on the scene in Bamako, some foreign scholars even concluded that all jeliya, the music of the Mande jeliw, is essentially heptatonic.

jeliya (uncountable)

1. (literally) The state or quality of being a jeli.
2. The essential traditions, practices and art of the jeliw.
3. The traditional music of the jeliw.