S. Reily’s primary areas of research focus on music in lay catholicism in Brazil, encompassing “folias de reis” (a mumming tradition linked to the devotion to the Three Kings), “congados” (a form of African-Brazilian music and dance tradition dedicated to Our Lady of the Rosary and Saint Benedict the Moor), and Holy Week in the former mining regions of the state of Minas Gerais among other traditions. She is also interested in various forms of amateur music making, having conducted research in brass bands and choirs; currently, she is investigating the Early Music Movement in São Paulo. She also publishes widely on general theoretical topics associated with Ethnomusicology such as music and memory, Brazilian Ethnomusicology, ethnomusicological method