Kay Kaufman Shelemay | |
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Title | G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music Professor of African studies African and African American Studies |
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Alma mater | University of Michigan |
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Institutions | Harvard University |
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]
Ethiopian music is a term that can mean any music of Ethiopian origin,however,often it is applied to a genre,a distinct modal system that is pentatonic,with characteristically long intervals between some notes.
Amharas are a Semitic-speaking ethnic group which is indigenous to Ethiopia,traditionally inhabiting parts of the northwest Highlands of Ethiopia,particularly inhabiting the Amhara Region. According to the 2007 national census,Amharas numbered 19,867,817 individuals,comprising 26.9% of Ethiopia's population,and they are mostly Oriental Orthodox Christian.
The Beta Israel,also known as Ethiopian Jews,are a Jewish community that developed and lived for centuries in the area of the Kingdom of Aksum and the Ethiopian Empire,which is currently divided between the modern-day Amhara and Tigray regions of Ethiopia. Most of the Beta Israel community immigrated to Israel in the late 20th century.
Ejigayehu Shibabaw,known by her stage name Gigi,is an Ethiopian singer. She has performed the music of Ethiopia in combination with a wide variety of other genres,often in collaboration with her husband Bill Laswell,a bassist and producer.
Mehlella,also Amata Saww or Sigd,is one of the unique holidays of the Beta Israel community,and is celebrated on the 29th of the Hebrew month of Marcheshvan. Since 2008,it has been an official Israeli state holiday.
The Hager Fikir Theatre is a theatre in Addis Ababa,Ethiopia. It is one of the oldest and foremost theatre in Ethiopian history;hosting as multipurpose artistic venue over half decades.
Sarah Anne Coakley is an English Anglican priest,systematic theologian and philosopher of religion with interdisciplinary interests. She is an honorary professor at the Logos Institute,the University of St Andrews,after she stepped down as Norris–Hulse Professor of Divinity (2007–2018) at the University of Cambridge. She is also a visiting professorial fellow at the Australian Catholic University,both in Melbourne and Rome.
Ethiopian Americans are Americans of Ethiopian descent,as well as individuals of American and Ethiopian ancestry.
An Azmari is an entertainer who sings and plays traditional string instruments of the Ethiopian Highlands. Its comparable to medieval European minstrels or bard or West African griots.
Gertrude Prokosch Kurath (1903–1992) was an American dancer,researcher,author,and ethnomusicologist. She researched and wrote extensively on the study of dance,co-authoring several books and writing hundreds of articles. Her main areas of interest were ethnomusicology and dance ethnology,with some of her best known works being "Panorama of Dance Ethnology" in Current Anthropology (1960),the book Music and dance of the Tewa Pueblos co-written with Antonio Garcia (1970),and Iroquois Music and Dance:ceremonial arts of two Seneca Longhouses (1964),in the Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology bulletin. She made substantial contributions to the study of Amerindian dance,and to dance theory. From 1958 to January 1972 she was dance editor for the journal Ethnomusicology.
Tizita/Tezeta/tazata(Amharic:ትዝታ;English:memory,"nostalgia" or "longing") is one of the Pentatonic scales or Qañat of the Amhara ethnic group.
Peter Jeffery is an American musicologist.
Haymanot is the branch of Judaism which is practiced by the Beta Israel,also known as Ethiopian Jews.
Bete Amhara is a historical region that is located in north central Ethiopia. It covered most of Ethiopia's Wollo Province,along with significant parts of north Shewa,Gojjam,and later,it encompassed Gonder. The state had 30 districts,including Ambassel,Lakomelza,Laikueyta,Tatakuyeta,Akamba,Ambassit,Atronsa Mariam,Genete,Feresbahir,Amba Gishen,Gishe Bere,Wasal,Wagada,Mecana-Selasse,Tabor,Tedbaba Mariam,Zoramba,Daje,Demah,Ephrata and Ewarza. The region is the source of much of Ethiopia's clothing culture,eating culture,language,and education.
Ethiopian liturgical chant,or Zema,is a form of Christian liturgical chant practiced by the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. The related musical notation is known as melekket. The tradition began after the sixth century and is traditionally identified with Saint Yared. Through history,the Ethiopian liturgical chants have undergone an evolution similar to that of European liturgical chants.
Barbara Dianne Savage is an author,historian,and the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She teaches undergraduate and graduate and courses that focus on 20th century African American history,the history of American religious and social reform movements,the history of the relationship between media and politics and black women's political and intellectual history.
Musicians under China's Ming dynasty had a diverse status,with many musicians having low social positions. At the same time,musicians could also enjoy great status,like in the case of the emperor Hongzhi who was very well known for being a proponent of music. Most musicians however,were not part of imperial or gentry family and Ming music culture was characterized by four distinct but closely interrelated subcultures. These were the court,literati,religious,and commoner music subcultures. The lives of these different types of musicians were incredibly different,but songs were a shared art form that demonstrated the ideals of both the elites and commoners.
Telela Kebede is a retired Ethiopian singer who gained popularity during Ethiopia's 1960s and 1970s ‘‘Golden Era’’of music.
Marcia Alice Herndon was an American ethnomusicologist and anthropologist. She specialized in the ways culture and music reflect each other. Herndon grew up in a family of country music performers in North Carolina. After completing her master's degree in 1964 at Tulane University,she performed classical music for several years. Earning a PhD in anthropology and ethnomusicology in 1971,she taught at the University of Texas at Austin,the University of California,Berkeley,and the University of Maryland. She is widely known for her contributions to Native American music studies with books such as Native American Music, as well as collaborating on Music as Culture,and Music,Gender,and Culture,which analyze the overlapping of musical forms and cultural structures.
Orthodox Tewahedo music refers to sacred music of the Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church. The music was long associated with Zema (chant),developed by the six century composer Yared. It is essential part of liturgical service in the Church and classified into fourteen anaphoras,with the normal use being the Twelve Apostles.