{{Western name order|Sam Sam-Ang}} {{Infobox musical artist |background=non_vocal_instrumentalist |native_name=សំ សំអាង |native_name_lang=khm |education= * Connecticut College (BA, 1983) * Connecticut College (MA, 1985) * Wesleyan University (PhD, 1988)<ref name="EDU1988">https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-1994/sam-ang-sam</ref> |current_member_of={{Plainlist| * Apsara Ensemble * Sam-Ang Sam Ensemble }} |birth_date={{Birth date and age|1950|1|8}}<ref name="arts">https://www.arts.gov/honors/heritage/apsara-ensemble</ref> }}
'''Sam-Ang Sam''' ({{langx|km|សំ សំអាង}}, {{lang|km-Latn|Sâm Sâm’ang}})<!-- Cambodian/Khmer scriot--> is a Cambodian-American ethnomusicologist and 1994 recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (as part of the Apsara Ensemble) in 1998.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=https://www.macfound.org/fellows/501/|title=Macarthur Fellows / Meet the Class of 1994 : Sam-Ang Sam |date=1 July 1994 |access-date=2017-02-25}}</ref><ref name=NEA>{{cite web|url= https://www.arts.gov/honors/heritage/fellows/apsara-ensemble|title= NEA National Heritage Fellowships, Apsara Ensemble|author= <!--Not stated-->|work= NEA|date= 2013-01-24|publisher= National Endowment for the Arts|access-date= 18 November 2018|archive-date= 2020-05-21|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200521080950/https://www.arts.gov/honors/heritage/fellows/apsara-ensemble|url-status= dead}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{cite journal |last1= Shapiro|first1= Toni|last2= Sam|first2= Sam-Ang|last3= Bishop|first3= Naomi Hawes|last4= Bishop|first4= John|last5= Sam|first5= Chan Moly|last6= Hay|first6= Somaly|last7= Sam|first7= Malene|last8= Shapiro|first8= Sophiline|last9= Sokhon|first9= Nareine|last10= Tes|first10= Sam-Ouen|date=1993–1994 |title=Khmer Court Dance (videotape) |journal=Asian Music |volume=25 |number= 1/2|pages= 322–326|doi= 10.2307/834227|jstor= 834227}}</ref> Having studied in Cambodia, they were in the Philippines when the Khmer Rouge took over Cambodia in 1975, and escaped the genocide that killed an estimated 90 percent of the country's musicians.<ref name=NEA/><ref>{{cite news |last=Leitsinger |first=Miranda |date=11 November 2004 |title=Ethnic Music Revival Aims for High Note |url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/25502443/cambodian_music_samang_sam/ |work= Los Angeles Times |location=Los Angeles, California |access-date= 18 November 2018|quote=It has been estimated that up to 90% of Cambodia's musicians died...}}</ref> He and his wife moved to the United States, and Sam-Ang got his doctorate in ethnomusicology in 1998 from Wesleyan University.<ref name=NEA/><ref name=wes>{{cite news |last=Larson |first=Donna |date= 14 April 2005|title= Cross-cultural 'Seasons of Migration'|url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/25502491/samang_sam_cds_echoes_fromthe_palace/ |work=Hartford Courant |location=Hartford, Connecticut |access-date= 18 November 2018}}</ref> He and his wife performed in various locations in the United States the between 1979 and 2005 with a dance troupe of Cambodian dancers.<ref>{{cite news |last=Spitzer |first= John|date=12 November 1979 |title=Troupe Dances for Cambodia |url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/25502138/sam_angsam_and_moly_sam/ |work= The Ithaca Journal|location=Ithaca, New York }}</ref><ref name=desmoines>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=6 February 1994 |title= Apsara Ensemble |url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/25502360/samang_sam_chan_moly_sam_18_members/ |work= The Des Moines Register|location= Des Moines, Iowa|access-date= 18 November 2018}}</ref><ref name=wes/> Their own performing troupe was called the Apsara Ensemble.<ref name=desmoines/>
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.<ref name=NEA/><ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.allmusic.com/artist/sam-ang-sam-ensemble-mn0000833463|author=Sam-Ang Sam Ensemble|title=Discography|website=AllMusic |access-date=18 November 2018}}</ref>
==Recordings and video== *{{cite book|title=Traditional music of Cambodia|first=Sam-Ang |last=Sam|others=Conservatoire National des Spectacles. Wedding Ensemble|location=Middletown, CT |publisher=Center for the Study of Khmer Culture|year=1987|oclc=18887768 }} *{{cite AV media|title=Echoes from the palace|people=Sam-Ang Sam Ensemble|location=Chapel Hill, N.C.|publisher=Music of the World|year=1996|oclc=35685707}}<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.amazon.com/Echoes-Palace-Court-Music-Cambodia/dp/B000003IT5/ref=ntt_mus_ep_dpi_2|title= Echoes From The Palace: Court Music Of Cambodia|author=<!--Not stated--> |website=amazon.com |access-date=18 November 2018 }}</ref> *{{cite AV media|title=Mohori: Khmer Music from Cambodia|people=Sam-Ang Sam Ensemble|location=Chapel Hill, N.C.|publisher=Music of the World|year=1999|oclc=896688142}}<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.amazon.com/Mohori-Cambodia-Sam-Ang-Sam-Ensemble/dp/B000003ITX|title= Mohori: Khmer Music from Cambodia|author=<!--Not stated--> |website=amazon.com |access-date=18 November 2018 }}</ref> *{{cite book|title=Cambodian court dances : the next generation|first1=Sam-Ang |last1=Sam|first2=John Melville |last2=Bishop|others=Cambodian Network Council; Media Generation|location=West Hills, CA|publisher=Media Generation|year=2001|oclc=54075479 }}
==Print publications== *{{cite book|title=The pin peat ensemble : its history, music and context|first=Sam-Ang |last=Sam|location=Ann Arbor, Michigan|publisher=UMI|year=1988|oclc=422852505 }} Dissertation: Ph.D., Wesleyan University, Conn. 1988 *{{cite book|title=Silent temples, songful hearts : traditional music of Cambodia|url=https://archive.org/details/silenttemplesson00sams|url-access=registration|first1=Sam-Ang |last1=Sam|first2=Patricia Shehan |last2=Campbell|others=Yang Sam and Tho "Tony" Sangphet (illustraters); Bonnie Periale (photographer) et al|location=Danbury, CT |publisher=World Music Press, cop|year=1991|oclc=924801597 }} *{{cite book|title=Khmer classical dance songbook|first=Amy|last= Catlin|others=Ghan Moly Sam (Khmer orthography handwriting); Sam-Ang Sam, Chan Moly Sam, and Amy Catlin (translators); Amy Catlin (musical transcriptions and glossary); Sophiline Cheam Shapiro (foreword)|location=Van Nuys|publisher=Apsara media for intercultural education|year=1992|oclc=963260981}} Musical score (Khmer) *{{cite journal|title=Musical instruments of Cambodia|first=Sam-Ang |last=Sam|journal=Senri Ethnological Reports|number=29|location=Osaka|publisher=National Museum of Ethnology|year=2002}} *{{cite book|author1=Sam-Ang Sam|author2=Ṅuan Saṃqāt|author3=Ath Nguon Sam|title=ការបង្ហាញពីរបៀបសំពះខ្មែរ|trans-title=Khmer salutation |publisher=សមាគមវប្បខមែរ|url=http://ci.nii.ac.jp/ncid/BA6450151X|year=c. 2002}} title transcription as ''Kār paṅhāñ bī rapiap saṃbaḥ khmaer''. *{{cite book|year=2010|title=Music in the lives of the indigenous ethnic groups in northeast Cambodia|url=http://ci.nii.ac.jp/ncid/BB21248049|publisher=University Press|author1=Sam-ang Sam|author2= Yun Khean|author3= Chhim Naline|editor=Paññāsāstra University of Cambodia}}
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == *[https://www.umbc.edu/eol/cambodia/samang.htm Cambodian music & dance in America] *[https://www.umbc.edu/eol/cambodia/ Page on Cambodian music by Sam-Ang Sam.] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20181118225036/https://pictures.abebooks.com/PISTIL/22396460019.jpg Cover of ''Silent Temples, Songful Hearts'']
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