SAMUS is the official organ of the South African Society for Research in Music (SASRIM). Contents and abstracts are listed in Rilm Abstracts, The Music Index, Sabinet Online, and African Journals OnLine.
Typical items for publication in SAMUS include articles, interviews, and reports on South African and other musics; reviews of books, scores, software and multimedia products, and recordings; conference reports; news relating to the South African Society for Research in Music (SASRIM) and other news.
For further information about editorial content and policy, contact: sasrim@gmail.com.
VISION
To be the most important journal for the publication of high quality research on music in South Africa
MISSION
To promote and foster research on music in South Africa; to encourage South African music researchers by publishing articles on a variety of topics; to promote the transformation of musicology and ethnomusicology in South Africa by actively encouraging black South African researchers to participate in the activities of the journal; to maintain a high standard of scholarship and of presentation in all that is published in the journal; to publish volumes regularly and predictably.
GOALS
To give priority to the publication of research on South African music by encouraging researchers to submit more articles related to this topic. One means to this end is to publish special issues from time to time on themes related to South African music.
To continue to represent the wider field of research interests in the country, especially those in the rest of Africa, by publishing a range of articles reflecting these interests.
To encourage and support the participation of black South African researchers as contributors, as evaluators on the panels of readers, and as editors.
To encourage researchers by offering editorial advice and support in order to raise the standard of submissions to a level commensurate with the standard required by the journal.
To retain our status as one of the South African journals approved for institutional subsidy purposes by the national Department of Education (generally known as SAPSE [South African Post-Secondary Education] status)
To maintain publication of at least one volume per year.
To disseminate SAMUS more widely within the field of international scholarship.
To ensure the financial security of the SAMUS enterprise
EDITOR 2005-2008: Christine Lucia (University of the Witwatersrand)
ASSISTANT EDITOR 2005-2008: Eric Akrofi
Volume 29 of SAMUS (2009) will be a special issue on composer Kevin Volans, and will be guest edited.
The South African Society for Research in Music will appoint a new Editor from Volume 30 (2010) onwards.
Kofi Agawu (Princeton University, USA)
Gregory Barz (Vanderbilt University, USA)
Paul Berliner (Duke University, USA)
Nicholas Cook (Royal Holloway College, UK)
James Davies (UC Berkeley, USA)
Veit Erlmann (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Jaco Kruger (University of the North-West, SA)
Winfried Lüdemann (University of Stellenbosch, SA)
Carol Ann Muller (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Roger Parker (King’s College London, UK)
Martin Scherzinger (Eastman College of Music, USA)
| Vol. 1 | Vol. 2 | Vol. 3 | Vol. 4 | Vol. 5 | Vol. 6 | Vol. 7 | Vol. 8/9 | Vol. 10 |
| Vol. 11 | Vol. 12 | Vol. 13 | Vol. 14 | Vol. 15 | Vol. 16 | Vol. 17 | Vol. 18 | Vol. 19/20 |
| Vol. 21 | Vol. 22 | Vol. 23 | Vol. 24 | Vol. 25 | Vol. 26/27 | Vol. 28 |
Please see membership page for current subscription fees.
Where available, back issues of SAMUS, are for sale at 150ZAR per issue. Please E-mail our secretary, Annemie Stimie and state which issue(s) you are interested in purchasing. Please include your postal address. If the issues you requested are in stock, an invoice, including local/international postage costs, will then be mailed to you. Payments should be made by cheque or direct transfer into SASRIM’s bank account. Proof of payment will be required before your order will be mailed to you.
For a full set of issues (volumes 1-24), please email the secretary for more details.
Authors who have prepared research articles or other material suitable for SAMUS are welcome to submit their work for consideration for publication in the SAMUS journal. Please consult the author guidelines before submitting your work and fill in the author declaration to be sent as part of your submission.
An advertisement in SAMUS will reach most South African academic musicians, those who decide what books, CDs, scores, and electronic media will be ordered by South African universities, and some academics overseas. Use our pages to advertise your product and to simultaneously support South African musicology and ethnomusicology.
If you wish to place a one-page advertisement in SAMUS, please contact our treasurer for further information. Our printer prefers electronic copy. Our pages are 180 mm wide by 245 mm high. We expect to publish Vol. 29 in mid-2009 and Vol. 30 in mid-2010.
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