A Conversation with Kay Kaufman Shelemay

Thursday, March 27 at 4PM, 701C Dodge Hall

PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU MUST RSVP TO aaf19@columbia.edu to attend this event. A paper by Prof. Shelemay is being distributed to those who RSVP and will be discussed at the event.

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).

All Ethnomusicology Colloquia are free and open to the public. Please RSVP to attend this talk to: aaf19@columbia.edu