Robert Walser (musicologist)
- Robert Walser (musicologist)
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 the University of California, Los Angeles.
Professor Walser also has served as an expert witness for over 250 music copyright infringement cases, generally reserved to the Ninth Circuit. His big successclarifyme|date=July 2008|post-text=(context) came from a broad statement of support from Circuit Judge William C. Canby, Jr., who fully supported Dr. Walser's methodology [ [http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/coa/newopinions.nsf/B7ED5F8C5B05653888256EF9007BFF21/$file/0355033.pdf?openelement SWIRSKY v. CAREY: Opinion by Judge Canby.PDF] , [http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/coa/newopinions.nsf/ New CA9 Opinions] ] , despite the less-than-appropriate credibility that Dr. Walser received via District Judge Christina A. SnyderFact|date=July 2008.
Walser is married to musicologist (and MacArthur Fellowship Award Winner) Susan McClary.
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" (OUP, 1999) [http://www.jazzscript.co.uk/books/antholwalser.htm 2] .
References
External links
* [http://www.musicology.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-bio.html#Walser Biography of Robert Walser (UCLA Department of Musicology)]
* [http://www.nostradamus.net/polka-walser.htm 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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