Remembering David Sanjek

The editors and staff of American Studies are saddened by the untimely death of our longtime editorial board member, David Sanjek. The journal benefited immensely from David’s cogent and constructive reader reports in his areas of expertise in popular music and across a wide range of topics. He attended our editorial board meeting in Baltimore on October 20, full of ideas, energy, and enthusiasm. We could not believe it when we heard of his heart attack and death little more than a month afterward. For a moving tribute to the many ways he touched scholars in American music studies, see the tribute page devoted to him, “Remembering David Sanjek,” on the website of one of the organizations of which he was a leader, the IASPM-US (International Association of the Study of Popular Music).