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 and director of the Rock and Popular Music Institute at Case Western Reserve University
.
Walser has also served as an expert witness
for over 250 music copyright infringement cases, generally reserved to the Ninth Circuit. His big success came from a broad statement of support from Circuit Judge William C. Canby, Jr.
, who fully supported Dr. Walser's methodology, 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
.
New musicology
The New Musicology is a term applied to a wide body of musicology with focus upon the cultural study, analysis, and criticism of music, with influences from feminism, gender studies, queer theory, and postcolonial studies...
". He is author of the book Running With the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music, concerning heavy metal music
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...
. Walser currently is a member of the faculty and director of the Rock and Popular Music Institute at Case Western Reserve University
Case Western Reserve University
Case Western Reserve University is a private research university located in Cleveland, Ohio, USA...
.
Walser has also served as an expert witness
Expert witness
An expert witness, professional witness or judicial expert is a witness, who by virtue of education, training, skill, or experience, is believed to have expertise and specialised knowledge in a particular subject beyond that of the average person, sufficient that others may officially and legally...
for over 250 music copyright infringement cases, generally reserved to the Ninth Circuit. His big success came from a broad statement of support from Circuit Judge William C. Canby, Jr.
William C. Canby, Jr.
William Cameron Canby, Jr. is currently a Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit sitting in Phoenix, Arizona. He was born on May 22, 1931, in St. Paul, Minnesota. Canby earned his undergraduate degree from Yale University in 1953 on an ROTC scholarship, graduating summa...
, who fully supported Dr. Walser's methodology, 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
Susan McClary
Susan McClary is a musicologist associated with the "New Musicology". Noted for her work combining musicology and a feminist music criticism, McClary is Professor of Musicology at Case Western Reserve University.-Biography:...
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Publications
- Running With the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music (1993, ISBN 0-8195-6260-2).
- (ed.) Keeping Time. Readings in Jazz History (OUPOxford University PressOxford University Press is the largest university press in the world. It is a department of the University of Oxford and is governed by a group of 15 academics appointed by the Vice-Chancellor known as the Delegates of the Press. They are headed by the Secretary to the Delegates, who serves as...
, 1999) 2.
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 MusicJournal of the Society for American MusicThe Journal of the Society for American Music is a peer-reviewed academic journal and the official journal of the Society for American Music. It is published by Cambridge University Press and edited by Leta Miller. The journal is the continuation of American Music, which was published from 1983....
12:3 (Fall 1994), pp. 322–27.