David Sanjek (3 ta’ Settembru 1952 – 29 ta’ Novembru 2011) kien Professur tal-Mużika Popolari u Direttur taċ-Centru għar-Riċerka Mużikali fl-Università ta’ Salford, f'Greater Manchester, l-Ingilterra. Flimkien ma’ missieru, Russell Sanjek, ipproduċew l-ewwel storja komprensiva miktuba dwar l-industrija tal-mużika Amerikana; American Popular Music and Its Business: The First Four Hundred Years.
David Sanjek kien iben il-kollettur tal-mużika jazz magħruf, storiku tal-industrija tal-mużika[3] u direttur eżekuttiv tal-BMI[4] Russell Sanjek. Huwa rċieva l-B.A. tiegħu fl-Ingliż u l-Filosofija minn Connecticut College u l-M.A. u l-Ph.D. fil-Letteratura mill-Università ta’ Washington f’St Louis. Huwa qatta' s-snin pre-akkademiċi tiegħu bħala mexxej influwenti u popolari taż-żgħażagħ[5] fil-kampijiet tas-sajf Farm & Wilderness u programmi edukattivi assoċjati li jinsabu fi u madwar Plymouth, Vermont.
Dan ix-xogħol kolossali ta’ riċerka u kitba[6] jittraċċa l-istorja tan-industija tal-mużika Amerikana mill-oriġini tagħha fl-Ingilterra Eliżabettana sa tmiem is-seklu għoxrin. David Sanjek kien responsabbli għall-aġġornament u r-raffinar tax-xogħol fit-tielet volum "Pennies From Heaven", li jiffoka fuq it-trasformazzjonijiet teknoloġiċi u legali li affettwaw l-industrija tal-Mużika Amerikana bejn l-1909 u l-1984.
L-eluf ta' kotba, ġurnali, karti, diski u għad ta' artefatti awdjo u viżivivi mill-kollezzjoni personali ta' David Sanjek huma miġbura fl-Università ta' Salford. Dan jifforma riżors siewi għall-istudjużi attwali u futuri fl-oqsma tal-mużika popolari, film, letteratura u teatru.[7]
L-IASPM-US torrfi l-Premju tal-Karta tal-Istudenti Gradwati d-David Sanjek Memorial Graduate Student Paper Prize[8] għall-graduati tal-mużika u l-ispettakli fl-Istati Uniti.
Sanjek, D. (2013) Zappa and the Freaks: Recording Wild Man Fisher in Paul Carr, ed., Frank Zappa and the And: Key Essays on the Contextualization of his Legacy. Aldershot: Ashgate.
Sanjek, D. (2012) Groove Me: Listening to the Discs of Northern Soul in Transatlantic Routes of American Roots Music. Farnham: Ashgate.
Sanjek, D. (2012) Putting It Together: The Institutionalization of the American Musical Theatre in Oxford Handbook of the American Musical Theatre. New York: Oxford University Press.
Sanjek, D. (2012) Jimmy Bowen in Grove Dictionary of American Music. New York: Oxford University Press.... [and various other entries: Johnny Otis; the Orioles; Gene Vincent; Sister Rosetta Tharpe; Clyde McPhatter; Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes; Neville Brothers; Tracy Nelson; Doo Wop; Eddie Fisher; Ink Spots; Brenda Lee; Tony Brown; Allen Toussaint; Jim Denny; the Dells]
Sanjek, D. (2011) African-American Music and the Recording Industry: An Introduction in Encyclopedia of African-American Music, Santa Barbara: Greenwood Press.
Sanjek, D. (2011) African-American Music and the Recording Industry: 1919-1942 in: Encyclopedia of African-American Music,' Santa Barbara: Greenwood Press.
Sanjek, D. (2011) African-American Music and the Recording Industry: 1942-68 in Encyclopedia of African-American Music. Santa Barbara: Greenwood Press.
Sanjek, D. (2011) Jump Blues in Encyclopedia of African-American Music. Santa Barbara: Greenwood Press.
Sanjek, D. (2011) What's Syd Got To Do With It?: King Records, Henry Glover and the Complex Achievement of Crossover in Hidden In The Mix: African American Country Music Traditions. Durham: Duke University Press.
Sanjek, D. (2009) Bank Accounts and Black Narcissus: Jimmie Rodgers and the Professionalization of American Popular Music in Waiting For A Train: Jimmie Rodgers's America. Burlington, Mass.: Rounder Books, 65-81
Sanjek, D. (2008) Shock Jocks: Making Mayhem Over the Radio in Battleground: The Media Volume 2 (O-Z). Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson/Prentice-Hall.
Sanjek, D. (2005) I Give it a 94.It’s Got a Beat and You can Dance to It. Valuing Popular Music in Michael Berube, The Aesthetics of Cultural Studies: An Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell, p. 117-139.
Sanjek, D. (2004) All the Memories Money Can Buy: Marketing Authenticity and Manufacturing Authorship in Eric Weisbard, ed., This is Pop, Harvard University Press, 155–172.
Sanjek, D. (2004) In My Time of Dying: Johnny Cash, Johnny Paycheck, Gary Stewart and Cycles of Hipness Peper at American Studies Association Convention, November 13.
Sanjek, D. (2002) Tell Me Something I Don’t Already Know in Norman Kelley, ed. Rhythm and Business: The Political Economy of Black Music. New York: Akashic Books.
Sanjek, D. (1999) Institutions in T. Swiss and B. Horner, eds. Key Terms in Popular Music and Culture. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 46–56
Sanjek, D. (1998) Reeling in the Years: American Vernacular Music & Documentary Film, in Brophy, P. ed. Cinesonic: The World of Sound in Film. Sydney: AFTRS Publishing.
Sanjek, D. (1998) Blue Moon of Kentucky Rising over the Mystery Train, in Cecilia Tichi, ed. Reading Country Music: Steel Guitars, Opra Stars and Honkytonk Bars. Duke University Press, p. 22-44
Sanjek, D. (1998) Popular Music and the Synergy of Corporate Culture, in Thomas Swiss, J. Sloop and E. Herman, eds. Mapping the Beat: Popular Music and Contemporary Theory. Oxford: Blackwell,
Sanjek, D. (1997) Can a Fujiama Mama be the Female Elvis?The Wild, Wild Women of Rockabilly in Whiteley, S. ed. Sexing the Groove. London: Routledge, pp. 137–167
Sanjek, D. (1994) Don’t Have to DJ No More: Sampling and the Autonomous Creator in Martha Woodmansee and Peter Jansi, eds. The Construction of Authorship: Textual Appropriation in Law and Literature. Duke University Press.
Sanjek, D. (2006) ‘Navigating the Channel: Recent Scholarship on African-American Popular Music,’ Journal of Popular Music Studies 11, 1, 167-192
Sanjek, D. (1997) One Size Does Not Fit All: The Precarious Position of the African-American Entrepreneur in Post WW2 American Popular Music American Music 15, 4, 535-562
Sanjek, D. (2012) Review of Funny Pictures: Animation and Comedy in Studio-Era Hollywood. Daniel Goldmark and Charlie Keil, eds. Quarterly Review of Film and Video
Sanjek, D. (2001) Big Boss Man: Samuel J. Arkoff (1917-2001) Pop Matters
Sanjek, D. (1996) Dr Hobbes Parasites: Victims, Victimization and Gender In David Cronenberg’s Shivers Cinema Journal 36, 1, 55-74.
Sanjek, D. (1994) Torment Street Between Malicious and Crude: Sophisticated Primitivism in the Films of Samuel Fuller, Literature Film Quarterly 22, 3, pp. 187–194.
Sanjek, D. (1994) Twilight of the Monsters: The English Horror Film 1968-1975 in Wheeler Winston Dixon, ed. Re-Viewing British Cinema 1900-1992. Albany: University of New York Press, p. 195-209.