Kay Kaufman Shelemay is the G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.^[1] She received her PhD in Musicology from the University of Michigan and won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007.^[2] Shelemay was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2013.^[3]

• Music, Ritual, and Falasha History (1986)^[4][5][6][7]
• ed. Garland Library of Readings in Ethnomusicology (Garland Publishing, 7 vols., 1990)
• A Song of Longing: An Ethiopian Journey (1991)
• Ethiopian Christian Chant: An Anthology with Peter Jeffery (3 vols., 1993–97)
• Let Jasmine Rain Down: Song and Remembrance Among Syrian Jews (University of Chicago Press, 1998)^[8]
• ed. Studies in Jewish Musical Traditions (2001)
• Soundscapes: Exploring Music in a Changing World (W.W. Norton, second edition 2006)^[9]
• co-ed. Pain and its Transformations: The Interface of Biology and Culture with Sarah Coakley (Harvard University Press, 2007)^[10][11][12]
• Sing and Sing On: Sentinel Musicians and the Making of the Ethiopian American Diaspora. University of Chicago Press, 2022.