Shelemay, Kay Kaufman. Forthcoming. Sing and Sing On: Sentinel Musicians and the Making of the Ethiopian American Diaspora. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

League, Panayotis, and Kay Kaufman Shelemay. Forthcoming. “Listening and Learning from the Music of the Global U.S.” Sounding Together: Collaborative Perspectives on U.S. Music in the 21st Century, edited by Charles Hiroshi Garrett and Carol J. Oja. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Publisher's Version

Shelemay, Kay Kaufman. Forthcoming. “Preface.” Ethiopian Devotional Arts, edited by Marilyn E. Heldman. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution.

Shelemay, Kay Kaufman. Forthcoming. “An Image of Performance, an Emblem of Power: Saint Yared and Liturgical Music of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.” Ethiopian Devotions: Painted Icons, Illuminated Manuscripts, Processional Crosses from the Fourteenth to the Twentieth Centuries, edited by Marilyn E. Heldman. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution.

Shelemay, Kay Kaufman. 2021. “Meklit Hadero Sings Her Sonic Homelands.” Women's Song Forum. Publisher's Version

Shelemay, Kay Kaufman. 2020. “Queering the Field: A Forward.” Queering the Field: Sounding Out Ethnomusicology, edited by Gregory Barz and William Cheng, 3-4. New York: Oxford University Press. Publisher's Version

Shelemay, Kay Kaufman. 2020. “Ethnography as a Way of Life.” Ethnomusicology 64 (1): 1-22.

Shelemay, Kay Kaufman. 2020. “Crossing Boundaries Through Contrafactum: A Case Study from the Syrian Jewish Tradition.” Basler Jahrbuch für Historische Musikpraxis 40: 345-367.

Shelemay, Kay Kaufman. 2020. “Afterword: Musical Commemoration and the Imagination of the Future.” Performing Commemoration: Musical Reenactment and the Politics of Trauma, edited by Annegret Fauser and Michael Figueroa, 263-268. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Shelemay, Kay Kaufman. 2020. “An Ethnomusicologist's View of Lei Liang's Compositions.” Confluence of a Hundred Streams: Narrating the Soundscapes of Lei Liang. Shanghai: Shanghai Conservatory of Music Press.

Shelemay, Kay Kaufman. 2019. “In Memoriam Marilyn E. Heldman (1935-2019).” Aethiopica: International Journal of Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies 22: 253-261.

Shelemay, Kay Kaufman. 2018. “Hearing Geography in Motion: Processes of the Musical Imagination in Diaspora.” Territories and Trajectories: Cultures in Circulation, edited by Diana Sorensen. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Publisher's Version

Shelemay, Kay Kaufman. 2017. “Music.” Ethiopia: History, Culture and Challenges, edited by Siegbert Uhlig, David Appleyard, Alessandro Bausi, Wolfgang Hahn, and Steven Kaplan, 205-209. Lansing: Michigan State University Press. Publisher's Version

Heldman, Marilyn E., and Kay Kaufman Shelemay. 2017. “Concerning Saint Yared.” Studies in Ethiopian Languages, Literature, and History: Festschrift for Getatchew Haile, edited by Adam Carter McCollum, 65-94. Harrassowitz: Wiesbaden. Publisher's Version

Shelemay, Kay Kaufman. 2016. “Traveling Music: Mulatu Astatke and the Genesis of Ethiopian Jazz.” Jazz Worlds/World Jazz, edited by Philip V. Bohlman and Goffredo Plastino, 239-257. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Publisher's Version

Shelemay, Kay Kaufman. 2015. Soundscapes: Exploring Music in a Changing World (3). 3rd ed. New York: W.W. Norton. Publisher's Version

Shelemay, Kay Kaufman, and Steven Kaplan, ed. 2015. Creating the Ethiopian Diaspora: Perspectives from Across the Disciplines. Los Angeles: Tsehai Publishers. Publisher's Version

Shelemay, Kay Kaufman. 2013. “The Ethics of Ethnomusicology in a Cosmopolitan Age.” The Cambridge History of World Music, edited by Philip V. Bohlman, 786-806. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press. Publisher's Version

Shelemay, Kay Kaufman. 2012. “Rethinking the Urban Community: (Re)Mapping Musical Processes and Places.” Urban People/Lidé Mesta 14 (2): 207-226.

Shelemay, Kay Kaufman. 2011. “'Love from Afar': Music and Longing Across Time, Space, and Diaspora.” Eranos Yearbook 11: 682-691.