Letter from the Editor

Abstract

I am delighted to present the inaugural issue of the Journal of the Society for American Music. Launching SAM has been an exciting and labor-intensive undertaking to which many hands have contributed. We look forward to working with Cambridge University Press, which publishes an outstanding line of music journals. I am grateful to SAM's President Michael Broyles and Executive Director Mariana Whitmer for their helpful responses to my countless questions over the past months; Past President Carol J. Oja and Vice President Judith Tick for their inspired ideas about the journal's potential directions; the Editorial Board, Assistant Editor Benjamin Piekut, and Reviews Editors Ron Pen, Charles Hiroshi Garrett, and Daniel Goldmark for their excellent and invaluable work; our many contributors for their patience during the transition of editorial homes and publishers; and—not the least!—SAM's members for their continued vigorous support of our Society's journal. On behalf of SAM, I would also like to thank Columbia University's Department of Music for graciously housing the journal during the term of my editorship, and Kip Lornell, David Patterson, Howard Pollack, and Catherine Parsons Smith, the outgoing Editorial Advisory Board members for American Music, SAM's former journal.