Shelemay, Kay Kaufman. 1988. “Together in the Field: Team Research Among Syrian Jews in Brooklyn, New York.” Ethnomusicology 32 (3): 369-384.

Shelemay, Kay Kaufman. 1987. “Music in the American Synagogue: A Case Study from Houston.” The American Synagogue: A Sanctuary Transformed, edited by Jack Wertheimer, 395-415. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Publisher's Version

Shelemay, Kay Kaufman. 1986. “Jewish Liturgical Forms in the Falasha Liturgy? A Comparative Study.” Yuval 5: 372-404. Publisher's Version

Shelemay, Kay Kaufman. 1985. “Folk Memory and Jewish Identity: The Falasha Dilemma.” The Solomon Goldman Lectures: Perspectives in Jewish Learning, edited by Nathaniel Stampfer, 4: 43-54. Chicago: The Spertus College of Judaica Press.

Shelemay, Kay Kaufman. 1983. “A New System of Musical Notation in Ethiopia.” Ethiopian Studies: Dedicated to Wolf Leslau, edited by Stanislav Segert and András T. E. Bodrogligeti, 571-582. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz.

Shelemay, Kay Kaufman. 1982. “Music and Text of the Falasha Sabbath.” Orbis Musicae 8 (3): 3-22.

Shelemay, Kay Kaufman. 1982. “The Music of the Lālibeloč: Musical Mendicants in Ethiopia.” Journal of African Studies 9 (3): 128-138.

Shelemay, Kay Kaufman. 1982. “Zēmā: A Concept of Sacred Music in Ethiopia.” The World of Music 24 (3): 52-67.

Shelemay, Kay Kaufman. 1980. “Seged: A Falasha Pilgrimage Festival.” Musica Judaica 3 (1): 42-62.

Shelemay, Kay Kaufman. 1980. “'Historical Ethnomusicology': Reconstructing Falasha Liturgical History.” Ethnomusicology 24 (2): 233-258.

Shelemay, Kay Kaufman. 1980. “Continuity and Change in the Liturgy of the Falasha.” Modern Ethiopia: From the Ascension of Menilek II to the Present; Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, edited by Joseph Tubiana, 479-489. Chicago.

Shelemay, Kay Kaufman. 1978. “Rethinking Falasha Liturgical History.” Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies: Session B, edited by Robert L. Hess, 397-410. Chicago.

Shelemay, Kay Kaufman. 1978. “A Quarter-Century in the Life of a Falasha Prayer.” Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council 10: 83-108.