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Kay Kaufman Shelemay, Harvard University. G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music at Harvard University and a former Chair of the Department of Music. An ethnomusicologist specializing in music of Africa, the Middle East, and the urban United States, she received her Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of Michigan. Her monograph Music, Ritual, and Falasha History (1986, 1989) won the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award and the Prize of the International Musicological Society. In addition to longtime interests in musical ethnography and music and memory, Shelemay’s current research is on Ethiopian music and musicians in their North American diaspora. Among several books, she has published Sing and Sing On: Sentinel Musicians and the Making of the Ethiopian American Diaspora. (U of Chicago Press, 2022). Kay Kaufman Shelemay – Harvard University Department of Music |
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