Shelemay, Kay Kaufman

Kay Kaufman Shelemay is Professor of Music at Harvard University and currently Chair of the Department of Music. An ethnomusicologist with specializations in musics of Africa, the Middle East, and urban United States, she received her Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of Michigan in 1977.

The author of numerous publications, Professor Shelemay's book Music, Ritual, and Falasha History (1986) won both the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award in 1987 and the Prize of the International Musicological Society in 1988. Her book A Song of Longing : An Ethiopian Journey (1991) details her years abroad as well as the unanticipated impact that the encroaching Ethiopian Revolution had on her life and research goals. Together with Ethiopian Christian Chant : An Anthology (3 vols., 1993-1997) co-authored with Peter Jeffery, these books serve to complement the materials found in the Kay Kaufman Shelemay Collection of Ethiopian Music, at Harvard.

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