Kay Kaufman Shelemay is the G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. ^[1] She received her PhD in Musicology from the University of Michigan and won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007. ^[2] Shelemay was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2013. ^[3]

Works

• Music, Ritual, and Falasha History (1986) ^{[4] [5] [6] [7]}
• ed. Garland Library of Readings in Ethnomusicology ( Garland Publishing, 7 vols., 1990)
• A Song of Longing: An Ethiopian Journey (1991)
• Ethiopian Christian Chant: An Anthology with Peter Jeffery (3 vols., 1993–97)
• Let Jasmine Rain Down: Song and Remembrance Among Syrian Jews ( University of Chicago Press, 1998) ^[8]
• ed. Studies in Jewish Musical Traditions (2001)
• Soundscapes: Exploring Music in a Changing World ( W.W. Norton, second edition 2006) ^[9]
• co-ed. Pain and its Transformations: The Interface of Biology and Culture with Sarah Coakley ( Harvard University Press, 2007) ^{[10] [11] [12]}
• Sing and Sing On: Sentinel Musicians and the Making of the Ethiopian American Diaspora. University of Chicago Press, 2022.

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