The ''Journal of the Society for American Music'', published quarterly, is a peer-reviewed

academic journal An academic journal or scholarly journal is a periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as permanent and transparent forums for the presentation, scrutiny, and ...

and the official journal of the

Society for American Music The Society for American Music (SAM) was founded in 1975 and was first named the Sonneck Society in honor of Oscar George Theodore Sonneck, early Chief of the Music Division in the Library of Congress and pioneer scholar of American music. The S ...

. It is published by

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and edited by Loren Kajikawa at

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. The journal is the continuation of ''American Music'', which was first published Spring 1983 (Vol. 1, No. 1), and obtained its current title in spring 2007.

Selected people

* Allen Perdue Britton (1914–2003), founding editor *

Irving Lowens Irving Lowens (19 August 1916 – 14 November 1983) was an American musicologist, critic, and librarian in the Washington, D.C. area. He served as the chief music critic at the ''Washington Star'' newspaper, the Assistant Head of the music divi ...

(1916–1983), founding book review editor * * Richard Jackson, founding bibliographer

External links

* Music journals Cambridge University Press academic journals Quarterly journals Publications established in 1983 English-language journals Academic journals associated with learned and professional societies of the United States {{music-journal-stub