Robert Walser (musicologist)
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Robert Walser is an American
musicologist associated with the "new musicology". He is author of the book Running With the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music, concerning heavy metal music. Walser currently is a member of the faculty at Case Western Reserve University
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Walser has also served as an
William C. Canby, Jr., who fully supported Dr. Walser's methodology,[1]
despite the less-than-appropriate credibility that Dr. Walser received via District Judge Christina A. Snyder {see Swirsky v. Carey, 226 F. Supp. 2d 1224 (C.D. Cal. 2002).
Walser is married to musicologist Susan McClary.
Publications
- Running With the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music (Wesleyan University Press, 1993, ISBN 0-8195-6260-2). Second edition, revised and expanded, 2014.
- (ed.) Keeping Time. Readings in Jazz History (OUP, 1999) 2. Second edition, revised and expanded, 2014.
- (ed.) The Christopher Small Reader (Wesleyan University Press, 2016).
- Valuing Jazz, in The Cambridge Companion to Jazz, ed. David Horn and Mervyn Cooke (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 301–320.
- Analyzing Popular Music: Ten Apothegms and Four Instances, in Allan Moore, ed., The Analysis of Popular Music (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 16–38.
- Deep Jazz: Notes on Interiority, Race, and Criticism, in Inventing the Psychological: Toward a Cultural History of Emotional Life in America, ed. Joel Pfister and Nancy Schnog (Yale University Press, 1997), pp. 271–96.
- Out of Notes: Signification, Interpretation, and the Problem of Miles Davis, Musical Quarterly 77:2 (Summer 1993), pp. 343–65.
- Rhythm, Rhyme, and Rhetoric in the Music of Public Enemy, Ethnomusicology 39:2 (Spring-Summer 1995), 193-217.
- Prince as Queer Poststructuralist, Popular Music and Society 18:2 (Summer 1994), 87-98.
References
External links
- Walser's Bio, from the CWRU Department of Music
- Robert Walser: "Review Essay: Polka Happiness, by Charles Keil, Angeliki Keil, and Dick Blau, and A Passion for Polka: Old-Time Ethnic Music in America, by Victor Greene," American Music 12:3 (Fall 1994), pp. 322–27.
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