# Sam-Ang Sam

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{{Western name order|Sam Sam-Ang}}
{{Infobox musical artist
|background=non_vocal_instrumentalist
|native_name=សំ សំអាង
|native_name_lang=khm
|education=
* [Connecticut College](/source/Connecticut_College) ([BA](/source/Bachelor_of_Arts), 1983)
* [Connecticut College](/source/Connecticut_College) ([MA](/source/Master_of_Arts), 1985)
* [Wesleyan University](/source/Wesleyan_University) ([PhD](/source/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](/source/Ethnomusicology) and 1994 recipient of a [MacArthur Fellowship](/source/MacArthur_Fellows_Program) 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](/source/Music_of_Cambodia) 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](/source/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](/source/Khmer_language) music and stimulate interest in the various [Cambodian](/source/Khmer_people) 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](/source/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 ==
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== 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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