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Kay Kaufman Shelemay is the G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music at Harvard University. She is the author of Music, Ritual, and Falasha History
(1986), which won both the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award in 1987 and the Prize of
the International Musicological Society in 1988. Other major publications include A Song of Longing: An Ethiopian Journey (1991);Ethiopian Christian Chant: An Anthology (1993-97), co-authored with Peter Jeffery; and Let Jasmine Rain Down: Song and Remembrance Among Syrian Jews (University of Chicago Press, 1998).

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