jeliya
English edit
Etymology edit
From Bambara jeliya (literally “being a jeli; 'jeli-ness'”).
Noun edit
jeliya (uncountable)
- The traditional music of the jeli (or griot) caste of the Mande people.
- 2013, Lucy Durán, “POYI! Bamana jeli music, Mali and the blues”, in Journal of African Cultural Studies, volume 9, number 25, Routledge, , →JSTOR, 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.
Bambara edit
Noun edit
jeliya (uncountable)