Sam-Ang Sam ( km, សំ សំអាង, ) is a Cambodian-American
ethnomusicologist
Ethnomusicology is the study of music from the cultural and social aspects of the people who make it. It encompasses distinct theoretical and methodical approaches that emphasize cultural, social, material, cognitive, biological, and other dim ...
and 1994 recipient of a
MacArthur Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (as part of the Apsara Ensemble) in 1998.
Sam-Ang Sam and his wife Chan Moly Sam spent "more than two decades" (as of 1993) "performing, teaching, researching, and documenting" their native country's
music and dances. Having studied in Cambodia, they were in the Philippines when the
Khmer Rouge
The Khmer Rouge (; ; km, ខ្មែរក្រហម, ; ) is the name that was popularly given to members of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK) and by extension to the regime through which the CPK ruled Cambodia between 1975 and 1979. ...
took over Cambodia in 1975, and escaped the genocide that killed an estimated 90 percent of the country's musicians.
[ He and his wife moved to the United States, and Sam-Ang got his doctorate in ethnomusicology in 1998 from Wesleyan University.][ Their own performing troupe was called the Apsara Ensemble.][
As founder of Sam-Ang Sam Ensemble, he has released several albums for sale in mainstream American markets in an attempt to revive Classical Khmer music and stimulate interest in the various Cambodian performing arts.][
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Recordings and video
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Print Publications
* Dissertation: Ph.D., Wesleyan University, Conn. 1988
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* Musical score (Khmer)
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* title transcription as ''Kār paṅhāñ bī rapiap saṃbaḥ khmaer''.
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References
External links
Cambodian music & dance in AmericaPage on Cambodian music by Sam-Ang Sam.Cover of ''Silent Temples, Songful Hearts''
American people of Cambodian descent
Cambodian musicians
American ethnomusicologists
Living people
MacArthur Fellows
National Endowment for the Arts Fellows
Year of birth missing (living people)
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