#  Kay Kaufman Shelemay 

Faculty Associate (emeritus); G. Gordon Watts Research Professor of Music, Department of Music; Professor, Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University.

 

 

 



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 email <shelemay@fas.harvard.edu> 

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**Research interests**: Ethnomusicology; musical ethnography; African Horn and new African communities abroad; migration; diaspora; memory; and ritual studies.

 

 

 





 

 

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