On
Monday, June 5, 2023, the online publication
The Conversation published an article written by
AAAS Professor Kay Kaufman Shelemay titled "Ethiopia’s musicians fled the country after the 1974 revolution - how their culture lives on." In the article, Professor Shelemay discusses her book
Sing and Sing On: Sentinel Musicians and the Making of the Ethiopian American Diaspora, and her research regarding the forced migration of musicians out of the Horn of Africa dating from the revolution, their struggles, and what happened to their rich and diverse music traditions when they settled in the US. The article can be read on
The Conversation's website.
