Kay Kaufman Shelemay

Kay Kaufman Shelemay
TitleG. Gordon Watts Professor of Music
Professor of African and African American Studies
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Michigan
Academic work
InstitutionsHarvard University

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.

References

  1. ^ "Kay Kaufman Shelemay". aaas.fas.harvard.edu. Harvard University. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
  2. ^ "Kay Kaufman Shelemay". www.gf.org. John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved 11 July 2017.
  3. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-03-17.
  4. ^ Moorefield, Arthur A. (1989). "Review of Music, Ritual, and Falasha History". Ethnomusicology. 33 (1): 179–182. doi:10.2307/852191. ISSN 0014-1836. JSTOR 852191.
  5. ^ Abbink, Jon (1989). "Review of Music, Ritual, and Falasha History". American Anthropologist. 91 (2): 500–502. doi:10.1525/aa.1989.91.2.02a00680. ISSN 0002-7294. JSTOR 681143.
  6. ^ NABARRO, M. D (1987). "Book Review. K. Kaufman Shelemay, Music Ritual and Falasha History in Children's Music and Musical Instruments". Book Review. K. Kaufman Shelemay, Music Ritual and Falasha History in Children's Music and Musical Instruments. 29 (3): 92–93. ISSN 0043-8774.
  7. ^ Weil, Shalva (1989-01-01). "SHELEMAY, Kay Kaufman, Music, Ritual and Falasha History, East Lansing, Michigan, African Studies Center, Michigan State University, 1986, xv, 415 pp., paper US$ 23.00, 88-71246". Journal of Religion in Africa. 19 (3): 276–280. doi:10.1163/157006600X00078. ISSN 1570-0666.
  8. ^ Katz, Israel J. (2000). "Review of Let Jasmine Rain down: Song and Remembrance among Syrian Jews". Ethnomusicology. 44 (3): 513–517. doi:10.2307/852498. JSTOR 852498.
  9. ^ Gammon, Vic (2004). "Review of Soundscapes: Exploring Music in a Changing World". The World of Music. 46 (1): 135–139. JSTOR 41699546.
  10. ^ Carlin, Nathan (2009-03-01). "Pain and Its Transformations: The Interface of Biology and Culture – Edited by Sarah Coakley and Kay Kaufman Shelemay". Religious Studies Review. 35 (1): 30. doi:10.1111/j.1748-0922.2009.01315_1.x. ISSN 1748-0922.
  11. ^ Rosen, Sara Vieweg; Ross, Donald R. (September 2008). "Pain and its Transformations. The Interface of Biology and Culture". The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. 196 (9): 720. doi:10.1097/NMD.0b013e3181856ed6.
  12. ^ Fitzgerald, Maria (2010). "BOOK REVIEW The lost domain of pain" (PDF). Brain: 1850–1854. doi:10.1093/brain/awq019.


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