Papers by Kay Kaufman Shelemay
Oxford University Press eBooks, Mar 17, 1999
Ethno-musicology, 1989
Music, Ritual, and Falasha History provides some of the best and most succinct discussions I know... more Music, Ritual, and Falasha History provides some of the best and most succinct discussions I know of Ethiopian Jewish religion and history. There is a competent account of the origins of the Beta Israel (lit: "House of Israel," the term by which these Jews of Ethiopia called ...
University of Chicago Press eBooks, 2022
... cler-ics in the mid-sixteenth century invented melekket'signs', a system of musical... more ... cler-ics in the mid-sixteenth century invented melekket'signs', a system of musical nora-tion. According to a manusctipr of that period," at the time of King Galawdewos [1549-1559], there appeared Azzaj Gera and Azzaj Ragu'el, priests trained in zema. And they hegan to make ...
University of Chicago Press eBooks, 2022
American Journal of Psychiatry, 2008
1. Introduction Sarah Coakley 2. Opening Remarks Arthur Kleinman Response from Anne Harrington Pa... more 1. Introduction Sarah Coakley 2. Opening Remarks Arthur Kleinman Response from Anne Harrington Part I: Pain at the Interface of Biology and Culture 3. Deconstructing Pain--A Deterministic Dissection of the Molecular Basis of Pain Clifford Woolf 4. Setting The Stage For Pain: Allegorical Tales From Neuroscience Howard Fields Response from Anne Harrington: Is Pain Differentially Embodied? Response from Elaine Scarry: Pain and the Embodiment of Culture Discussion: Is There Life Left in the Gate Control Theory? Discussion: The Success of Reductionism in Pain Treatment Part II: Beyond "Coping": Religious Practices of Transformation 5. Palliative or Intensification? Pain and Christian Contemplation in the Spirituality of the 16th-Century Carmelites Sarah Coakley 6. Pain and the Suffering Consciousness: The Alleviation of Suffering in Buddhist Discourse Luis Gomez Response from Arthur Kleinman: The Incommensurable Richness of "Experience" Response from Jon Levenson: The Theology of Pain and Suffering in the Jewish Tradition Discussion: The "Relaxation Response": Can it Explain Religious Transformation? Discussion: Reductionism and the Separation of Suffering and Pain Discussion: The Instrumentality of Pain in Christianity and Buddhism Part III: Grief and Pain: The Mediation of Pain in Music 7. Voice, Metaphysics, and Community: Pain and Transformation in the Finnish Karelian Ritual Lament Elizabeth Tolbert 8. Music, Trancing and the Absence of Pain Judith Becker Response from John Brust: Music as Ecstasy and Music as Trance Response from Kay Shelemay: Thinking About Music and Pain Discussion: The Presentation and Representation of Emotion in Music Discussion: Neurobiological Views of Music, Emotion, and the Body Discussion: Ritual and Expectation Part IV: Pain, Ritual and the Somatomoral: Beyond the Individual 9. Pain and Humanity in the Confucian Learning of the Heart-and-Mind Tu Weiming Response from Laurence Kirmayer: Reflections from Psychiatry on Emergent Mind and Empathy 10. Painful Memories: Ritual and the Transformation of Community Trauma Jennifer Cole Response from Stanley Tambiah: Collective Memory as a Witness to Collective Pain Discussion: Pain, Healing, and Memory Part V: Pain as Isolation or Community? Literary and Aesthetic Representations 11. Physical Pain and the Ground of Creating Elaine Scarry 12. The Poetics of Anaesthesia: Representations of Pain in the Literatures of Classical India Martha Ann Selby Response from Richard Wolf: Doubleness, matam, and Muharram Drumming in South Asia Discussion: The Dislocation, Representation, and Communication of Pain Part VI: When Is Pain Not Suffering and Suffering Not Pain?: Self, Ethics and Transcendence 13. On the Cultural Mediation of Pain Laurence Kirmayer Discussion: The Notion of Face 14. The Place of Pain in the Space of Good and Evil Nicholas Wolterstorff Response from Charles Hallisey: The Problem of Action 15. Afterword Sarah Coakley
International Journal of African Historical Studies, 1989
Music, Ritual, and Falasha History provides some of the best and most succinct discussions I know... more Music, Ritual, and Falasha History provides some of the best and most succinct discussions I know of Ethiopian Jewish religion and history. There is a competent account of the origins of the Beta Israel (lit: "House of Israel," the term by which these Jews of Ethiopia called ...
It has been said that "one ventures from home on the thread of a tune" (Deleuze and Gua... more It has been said that "one ventures from home on the thread of a tune" (Deleuze and Guattari 1982, p. 311). Here we will follow the threads of several tunes to explore a musical and cultural tradition that conveys a dual Arab-Jewish identity little known to outsiders but still embraced by Syrian Jews today living in communities scattered worldwide. This tradition challenges current political and cultural divides.The Syrian Jewish community's presence in Aleppo, Syria, has been dated by archaeological evidence to the early centuries of the Common Era. In the late-nineteenth century, Syrian Jews joined a broader stream of migration out of the Middle East that began after overland trade declined following the construction of the Suez Canal. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Syrian Jews began to establish new communities abroad; by the twentieth century's end, no Jews remained in Syria. Wherever Syrian Jews migrated, they took with them a repertory of hundreds...
Duke University Press eBooks, Jun 7, 2018
Anthropology News, Dec 1, 2010
The Executive Board convened a task force to undertake a comprehensive review of the AAA Code of ... more The Executive Board convened a task force to undertake a comprehensive review of the AAA Code of Ethics. The Task Force collected information and distilled the material into basic principles, aiming to represent the concerns of the code and of the members in a new way and striving to make it more explicit and easier to remember. Through May 2011, we are posting the principles one at a time on the AAA blog so that any interested member can review, critique and discuss each of the principles. This will give all AAA members the opportunity to focus on the issues at hand in each of the principles presented. To view the current discussion and add your own comments, go to the AAA blog at http://blog.aaanet.org, then click on the "Ethics Task Force" tab about the blog's header.
Journal of Religion in Africa, Aug 1, 1992
Ethiopia presents an unusually complex profile both in terms of the diversity of religious practi... more Ethiopia presents an unusually complex profile both in terms of the diversity of religious practice within the country and the interaction between belief systems which on the surface appear to be separate. Officially a Christian state from the date of the conversion of the Ethiopian emperor by a Syrian missionary about the
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Dec 12, 2013
This chapter presents a broad discussion of ethical discourses and practices in the study of worl... more This chapter presents a broad discussion of ethical discourses and practices in the study of world music by ethnomusicologists. ii In recent ethnomusicological literature, the term "cosmopolitan" has been invoked to refer to "cultural formations that are … always simultaneously local and translocal." (Turino 2000, 7). iii In the present chapter I give attention to ethical issues surrounding
Ethno-musicology, 1986
Whether music's appeal to the senses detracts from or contributes to devotion is an important... more Whether music's appeal to the senses detracts from or contributes to devotion is an important question for all religious traditions. This interdisciplinary, cross-cultural collection is intended as a first step towards a phenomenology of religious music. Topics range from the mystical strain in Jewish liturgical music to music in the Theravada Buddhist heritage. Contributors include Lois Ibsen al Faruqi, Bruce B. Lawrence, John Ross Carter, and Donna Marie Wulff.
Examines Spring from Vivaldi's Four Seasons and an excerpt from Mahler's Song of the Earth..
Journal of Religion in Africa, 1992
Ethiopia presents an unusually complex profile both in terms of the diversity of religious practi... more Ethiopia presents an unusually complex profile both in terms of the diversity of religious practice within the country and the interaction between belief systems which on the surface appear to be separate. Officially a Christian state from the date of the conversion of the Ethiopian emperor by a Syrian missionary about the
American Music, 2004
... 7. Jay Mechling, "Commentary" to Wise, "'Paradigm Dramas,"' in ... more ... 7. Jay Mechling, "Commentary" to Wise, "'Paradigm Dramas,"' in Locating Ameri-can Studies, ed. Maddox, 213. ... 12. Recent studies of transnational trends include Carol Oja's work on Balinese-in-fluenced composer Colin McPhee, Colin McPhee: Composer in Two Worlds ...
Urban musical research continues to present theoretical and methodological challenges. This paper... more Urban musical research continues to present theoretical and methodological challenges. This paper suggests a revised approach to the study of the urban diaspora community, mapping ways in which musical processes have been instrumental in shaping the cultural places central to the development of the Ethiopian diaspora community. Following cultural geography’s attention to “place-making” rather than residential proximity as the locus of community formation, the discussion tracks aspects of musical transmission and performance that have helped generate, shape, and sustain new communities among Ethiopians in the diaspora.Musi
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