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Shelemay's deeply researched and sensitive survey of Ethiopia's 'sentinel musicians' reveals the power and presence of music across time and space by profiling activist artists over continents and decades. This is a major contribution to mobility and diaspora studies as well as an eloquent guide to how resilient musicians can shape a scattered society through sound and purpose. -- Mark Slobin, author of Folk Music: A Very Short Introduction

Shelemay's deeply researched and sensitive survey of Ethiopia's 'sentinel musicians' reveals the power and presence of music across time and space by profiling activist artists over continents and decades. This is a major contribution to mobility and diaspora studies as well as an eloquent guide to how resilient musicians can shape a scattered society through sound and purpose. -- Mark Slobin, author of Folk Music: A Very Short Introduction When a senior ethnomusicologist writes about work that has extended over the course of a whole career, it is a gift since ethnography doesn't often offer such historical depth. When this work has been in both a homeland and a diaspora with citizens of a country/region that has been particularly under duress, it is an even greater gift since it enables us to see how the role of musical performance responds and shapes social conditions across difficult times and multiple places. -- Beverley Diamond, Memorial University of Newfoundland

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Kay Kaufman Shelemay is the G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music and African American studies at Harvard University. She is the author or editor of many books, including Soundscapes: Exploring Music in a Changing World and Let Jasmine Rain Down: Song and Remembrance among Syrian Jews, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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