Creator Bio
Kay Kaufman Shelemay
b. 1948
Brought up in Texas, Kay Kaufman Shelemay is an ethnomusicologist, specializing in Ethiopian music. She teaches at Harvard University and serves as director of graduate studies in its Ethnomusicology program. Shelemay has received the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award, the Prize of the International Musicological Society and, in 2010, the Jaap Kunst Prize for Ethnomusicology.
Content by Kay Kaufman Shelemay
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Jewish Liturgical Forms in the Falasha Liturgy? A Comparative Study
The Falashas of Ethiopia have attracted considerable attention because of their Judaic religious practice, yet the relationship of their liturgy to normative Judaism remains underdetermined. This…