Kay Kaufman Shelemay is the G. Gordon Watts Professor of

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and Professor of

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and African American Studies at

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. She received her PhD in

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from the

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and won a

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in 2007. Shelemay was elected to the

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in 2013.

Works

* ''Music, Ritual, and Falasha History'' (1986) * ed. ''Garland Library of Readings in Ethnomusicology'' (

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, 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'' (

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, 1998) * ed. ''Studies in Jewish Musical Traditions'' (2001) * ''Soundscapes: Exploring Music in a Changing World'' (

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, second edition 2006) * co-ed. ''Pain and its Transformations: The Interface of Biology and Culture'' with

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(

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, 2007) * ''Sing and Sing On: Sentinel Musicians and the Making of the Ethiopian American Diaspora.'' University of Chicago Press, 2022.

References

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