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	== Geography and communities ==		== Geography and communities ==

	The map represents overlapping Mande cultural corridors through southern and western Mali, Guinea, eastern Senegal and The Gambia, with relevant neighboring connections. These are broad, language- and family-linked landscapes that cross national borders and include rural communities. Separate British, French and northeastern United States fields represent diaspora events and musicians maintaining those relationships abroad. A performance documented in New York is evidence of a transnational community, not proof that New York has replaced the West African heartlands. The fields express cultural affinity, not the legal limits of hereditary status.		The map represents overlapping Mande cultural corridors through southern and western Mali, Guinea, eastern Senegal and The Gambia, with relevant neighboring connections. These are broad, language- and family-linked landscapes that cross national borders and include rural communities. Separate British, French and northeastern United States fields represent diaspora events and musicians maintaining those relationships abroad. A performance documented in New York is evidence of a transnational community, not proof that New York has replaced the West African heartlands. The fields express cultural affinity, not the legal limits of hereditary status.

			Jeliya is sustained by relationships among performers, patrons and communities, not simply by the survival of old repertoire. Dorothea Schulz’s ethnographic account places changing media and patronage within this social world. The Mali–Guinea and Senegambian fields therefore remain connected regional landscapes, with mobility and public communication extending practice beyond named capitals. They do not make all Mande speakers hereditary specialists. <ref name="africa2026-ml-jeliya">[https://journals.openedition.org/etudesafricaines/167?id=167 The World is Made by Talk — Dorothea Schulz]. Access note: Relevant public text/indexed passages read.</ref>

	== Artists ==		== Artists ==
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	=== References and further reading ===		=== References and further reading ===

	<references />		<references />

	== Hotspot mushrooms ==		== Hotspot mushrooms ==

	Jeliya is a connected transnational Mande social institution with several regional instrumental centers. Broad overlapping West African fields and detached diaspora circuits express actual family/community circulation, not a chain of capital-city studios.		Jeliya is a connected transnational Mande social institution with several regional instrumental centers. Broad overlapping West African fields and detached diaspora circuits express actual family/community circulation, not a chain of capital-city studios.

	These fields are editorial illustrations of musical affinity and cultural reach, not listener statistics. Radius marks the zero edge of the fade; overlapping fields of this genre combine by maximum.		These fields are editorial illustrations of musical affinity and cultural reach, not listener statistics. Radius marks the zero edge of the fade; overlapping fields of this genre combine by maximum.

			Africa completion review: The connected regional fields are retained; their intensity expresses qualitative musical affinity and is not an audience estimate.

			The fields express editorial judgments about relative musical affinity and reach, not measured audience shares. Radius is the zero edge of a linear fade; same-genre overlaps combine by maximum.

	{\| class="wikitable muglobe-hotspots"		{\| class="wikitable muglobe-hotspots"
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	! ID !! Location !! Latitude !! Longitude !! Radius (km) !! Strength !! Notes		! ID !! Location !! Latitude !! Longitude !! Radius (km) !! Strength !! Notes

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	\| jeliya-manden-heartland \|\| Manden Mali–Guinea cultural corridor \|\| 11.8 \|\| -9.4 \|\| 750 \|\| 1 \|\| Continuous Mande communities and specialist networks.		\| jeliya-manden-heartland \|\| Manden Mali–Guinea cultural corridor \|\| 11.8 \|\| -9.4 \|\| 750.0 \|\| 1.0 \|\| Continuous Mande communities and specialist networks.

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	\| jeliya-senegambia \|\| Senegambian Mandinka landscape \|\| 13 \|\| -14.4 \|\| 600 \|\| 0.9 \|\| Distinct related western repertoire and kora networks.		\| jeliya-senegambia \|\| Senegambian Mandinka landscape \|\| 13.0 \|\| -14.4 \|\| 600.0 \|\| 0.9 \|\| Distinct related western repertoire and kora networks.

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	\| jeliya-france \|\| French Mande diaspora circuit \|\| 47 \|\| 2 \|\| 400 \|\| 0.45 \|\| Community events and professional performance.		\| jeliya-france \|\| French Mande diaspora circuit \|\| 47.0 \|\| 2.0 \|\| 400.0 \|\| 0.45 \|\| Community events and professional performance.

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	\| jeliya-britain \|\| British Mande diaspora and adopted circuit \|\| 52 \|\| -1.2 \|\| 300 \|\| 0.34 \|\| Detached community and concert practice.		\| jeliya-britain \|\| British Mande diaspora and adopted circuit \|\| 52.0 \|\| -1.2 \|\| 300.0 \|\| 0.34 \|\| Detached community and concert practice.

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	\| jeliya-us-northeast \|\| Northeastern United States Mande circuit \|\| 41 \|\| -73.8 \|\| 330 \|\| 0.35 \|\| Documented transnational social-performance community.		\| jeliya-us-northeast \|\| Northeastern United States Mande circuit \|\| 41.0 \|\| -73.8 \|\| 330.0 \|\| 0.35 \|\| Documented transnational social-performance community.

	\|}		\|}

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	== Artists ==		== Artists ==
	Toumani Diabaté and Sidiki Diabaté offer influential kora lineages, while Ballaké Sissoko opens another distinct approach. Kandia Kouyaté illustrates the commanding vocal dimension; Bassekou Kouyaté's work makes ngoni ensemble possibilities audible. Abdoulaye Diabaté and Super Manden show jeliya in a New York community setting documented by Smithsonian Folkways. These examples are not interchangeable representatives of a generic griot sound. Comparing families, instruments and social settings is essential to understanding a practice whose authority can be both inherited and individually earned through performance. <ref name="folkways-jaliya" />		Toumani Diabaté and Sidiki Diabaté offer influential kora lineages, while Ballaké Sissoko opens another distinct approach. Kandia Kouyaté illustrates the commanding vocal dimension; Bassekou Kouyaté's work makes ngoni ensemble possibilities audible. Abdoulaye Diabaté and Super Manden show jeliya in a New York community setting documented by Smithsonian Folkways. These examples are not interchangeable representatives of a generic griot sound. Comparing families, instruments and social settings is essential to understanding a practice whose authority can be both inherited and individually earned through performance. <ref name="folkways-jaliya" />

			== Representative performances ==
			These recordings offer listening examples of the genre. Notes identify the performance setting and any adaptation or mixed repertoire.

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			\| Toumani Diabaté and Sidiki Diabaté \|\| Kaïra — RFI Musiques du Monde \|\| https://www.youtube.com/embed/Y6pe_gcgopc \|\| The broadcaster’s father-and-son kora performance represents instrumental Mande jeli practice and intergenerational repertoire.<ref name="performance-jeliya-1">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6pe_gcgopc Toumani Diabaté and Sidiki Diabaté — Kaïra — RFI Musiques du Monde]. YouTube recording; metadata checked 2026-10-18.</ref>
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			\| Kandia Kouyaté \|\| Djeli Nana \|\| https://www.youtube.com/embed/jpL8LBko5Lk \|\| Syllart’s official video adds a female jeli vocal performance and modern recorded arrangement, complementing the instrumental kora example.<ref name="performance-jeliya-2">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpL8LBko5Lk Kandia Kouyaté — Djeli Nana]. YouTube recording; metadata checked 2026-10-18.</ref>
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	== Related genres ==		== Related genres ==
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== Summary ==
Mande jeliya is a field of musical, verbal and social practice associated with jeliw, also called griots in wider usage. It includes praise, historical narration, mediation and entertainment, with regional and family traditions of singing and instrumental performance. Kora, bala and ngoni are prominent instruments in different settings, but the category is not defined by one instrument. A performance can connect a present person or occasion to remembered genealogies, exemplary figures and shared histories. Its meaning depends on relationships as well as on the notes a listener hears. <ref name="gf-aw-mande">[https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo3629899.html Mande Music — Eric Charry, University of Chicago Press].</ref>

== Contemporary and trending ==
Jeliya continues in family events, professional performance, recordings and transnational communities. Some musicians work within inherited social roles; others present instrumental virtuosity or collaborations to audiences unfamiliar with those roles. These are different situations rather than a simple division between authentic local music and diluted export. Amplification, electronic keyboards and new ensembles can change the texture while retaining recognizable repertories or forms of address. Contemporary practice is therefore both a social institution and a source of highly individual musical invention. <ref name="folkways-jaliya">[https://folkways.si.edu/abdoulaye-diabate-and-super-manden/fakoli/world/music/track/smithsonian Fakoli — Abdoulaye Diabate and Super Manden, Smithsonian Folkways].</ref>

== History ==
Jeli traditions are deeply connected to the histories of Mande-speaking societies and the memory of past rulers and lineages. Oral transmission does not mean an unchanging historical script: performers select, interpret and adapt material for particular occasions. Colonial and postcolonial cities, radio, national ensembles and commercial recordings created additional publics. Migration extended those relationships to Europe and North America. Eric Charry's comparative organization of Mande music is useful precisely because it distinguishes related practices rather than describing every sound from Mali or Guinea as one undifferentiated tradition. <ref name="gf-aw-mande" />

== Musical characteristics ==
Instrumental cycles can provide a recognizable foundation while allowing extensive variation. A kora player may separate flowing accompaniment from faster elaboration; bala parts can interlock, and ngoni brings a distinct plucked attack. Singing can move from a sustained melodic passage toward speech-like praise or narrative delivery. Text, names and timing may matter profoundly to knowledgeable participants. For a new listener, following a recurring instrumental pattern through changes of vocal intensity offers an entry into the form without pretending that instrumental beauty exhausts the performance's social content.

== Geography and communities ==
The map represents overlapping Mande cultural corridors through southern and western Mali, Guinea, eastern Senegal and The Gambia, with relevant neighboring connections. These are broad, language- and family-linked landscapes that cross national borders and include rural communities. Separate British, French and northeastern United States fields represent diaspora events and musicians maintaining those relationships abroad. A performance documented in New York is evidence of a transnational community, not proof that New York has replaced the West African heartlands. The fields express cultural affinity, not the legal limits of hereditary status.

== Artists ==
Toumani Diabaté and Sidiki Diabaté offer influential kora lineages, while Ballaké Sissoko opens another distinct approach. Kandia Kouyaté illustrates the commanding vocal dimension; Bassekou Kouyaté's work makes ngoni ensemble possibilities audible. Abdoulaye Diabaté and Super Manden show jeliya in a New York community setting documented by Smithsonian Folkways. These examples are not interchangeable representatives of a generic griot sound. Comparing families, instruments and social settings is essential to understanding a practice whose authority can be both inherited and individually earned through performance. <ref name="folkways-jaliya" />

== Related genres ==
Wassoulou, hunters' music and Mande guitar-based pop share parts of the wider regional environment but have distinct relationships to social role and repertoire. Kora music is a useful instrument-based browsing category, yet not all kora playing has the same function as jeli praise. Likewise, a singer from a jeli family may pursue music beyond a conventional jeliya setting. Keeping practice, instrument, family identity and commercial genre separate makes the connections more informative and avoids turning a living institution into a costume attached to any West African musician.

=== References and further reading ===
<references />

== Hotspot mushrooms ==
Jeliya is a connected transnational Mande social institution with several regional instrumental centers. Broad overlapping West African fields and detached diaspora circuits express actual family/community circulation, not a chain of capital-city studios.

These fields are editorial illustrations of musical affinity and cultural reach, not listener statistics. Radius marks the zero edge of the fade; overlapping fields of this genre combine by maximum.

{| class="wikitable muglobe-hotspots"
|+ MuGlobe hotspot mushrooms
! ID !! Location !! Latitude !! Longitude !! Radius (km) !! Strength !! Notes

|-
| jeliya-manden-heartland || Manden Mali–Guinea cultural corridor || 11.8 || -9.4 || 750 || 1 || Continuous Mande communities and specialist networks.

|-
| jeliya-senegambia || Senegambian Mandinka landscape || 13 || -14.4 || 600 || 0.9 || Distinct related western repertoire and kora networks.

|-
| jeliya-france || French Mande diaspora circuit || 47 || 2 || 400 || 0.45 || Community events and professional performance.

|-
| jeliya-britain || British Mande diaspora and adopted circuit || 52 || -1.2 || 300 || 0.34 || Detached community and concert practice.

|-
| jeliya-us-northeast || Northeastern United States Mande circuit || 41 || -73.8 || 330 || 0.35 || Documented transnational social-performance community.

|}