Ethnomusicologist Kay Kaufman Shelemay is the G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music and
professor of African and African American studies at Harvard, where she has received the Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize and the Phi Beta Kappa Prize for Excellence in Teaching. Among her books are Soundscape: Exploring Music in a Changing World, 2nd ed.; Pain and Its Transformations: The Interface of Biology and Culture (coeditor); and Music, Ritual, and Falasha History (ASCAP Deems Taylor Award; International Musicological Society prize). She is currently writing a book on music and musicians of the Ethiopia diaspora.
She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEH, the ACLS, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and has been a resident fellow in Italy at the Liguria Study Center for the Arts and Humanities and the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center. A past president of the Society for Ethnomusicology and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she is a congressional appointee to and former chair of the board of trustees of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.
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