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Robert Walser is an Americanmusicologist associated with the "new musicology". He is author of the bookRunning With the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music, concerningheavy metal music. Walser currently is a member of the faculty atCase Western Reserve University.

Walser has also served as anexpert witness for over 250music copyright infringement cases, generally reserved to theNinth Circuit. His big success^{[clarification needed (context)]} came from a broad statement of support from Circuit JudgeWilliam 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 musicologistSusan McClary.

• 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.

• Walser's Bio, from the CWRU Department of Music
• Robert Walser: "Review Essay:Polka Happiness, by Charles Keil, Angeliki Keil, and Dick Blau, andA 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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