Night & Day: Cole Porter, Hip Hop, Their Shared Sensibilities and Their Teachable Moments

01 October 2009 Feminine Endings: Music, Gender and Sexuality. Minneapolis: Uni- versity of Minnesota Press, 1991. McClary, Susan, and Robert Walser. “Start Making Sense! Musicology Wrestles with Rock.” In On Record: Rock, Pop, and the Written Word, edited by Simon...

Ruminations on the Center for Black Music Research

01 October 2008 11, no.2, Fall 1991), which was edited by Bruce Tucker and carried ten articles. Later, in 1994, Susan McClary and Robert Walser’s “Theorizing the Body in African-American Music”23 appeared in Black Music Research Journal (Volume 14, no. 1, Spring...

The Body in the Music: Epistemology and Musical Semiotics

01 October 1991 of the Society for Ethnomusicology, November 1990, Oakland, CA, where a version of this paper was read. authors: Robert Walser author_ids: 1143 authors: Robert Walser author_ids: 1143

Seduction and Subversion: The Feminist Strategies of Siouxsie and the Banshees

13 December 2017 aesthetics (Macarthur, 12-17Macarthur, Sally. Feminist Aesthetics in Music. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002.). Robert Walser characterizes guitar virtuosity as a celebration of power and transcendence through musical rhetoric, but a feminist...

Appreciation Without Apologies

02 October 2006 admit. And should they forget themselves, enforcers of a now-conventional opinion will prod them back in line. Thus, Robert Walser reproves Simon Frith for his call for a renewed aesthetic engagement. Firth, after a career of writing about how rock...

Reviews of Books on Jazz

01 October 2003 has value, let me show you why." (297) Part V, "Jazz Takes," covers different ways of viewing jazz. "Valuing Jazz" by Robert Walser is almost pure invective. It criticizes any discussion of jazz (beginning with a 1987 Congressional resolution to declare...

Music as Life-Saving Project: Venezuela’s El Sistema in American Neo-Idealistic Imagination

28 April 2014 to Understand Music: A Concise Course of Musical Culture. Philadelphia: Theodore Presser Co., 1888. McClary, Susan and Robert Walser. “Start Making Sense! Musicology Wrestles with Rock.” In Simon Frith and Andrew Goodwin, eds. On Record: Rock, Pop, and...

Teaching Rap: Musings at Semester's End

01 October 1997 161-163; Luther Campbell, "Today They're Trying to Censor Rap, Tomorrow . . . ," pp. 170-172; Michael Eric Dyson, with Robert Walser and Robin D. G. Kelley, "Fear of a Hip-Hop Syllabus," pp. 236-239; Run-DMC, "Hey! Valentine's Day? Walk This Way," pp....

The Shock of the Familiar: Hearing Ourselves in Others' Voices

02 October 2006 and Tears"), to Dan Neuman, Tony Seeger, Larry Starr and Patricia Waterman for reading the paper in draft form, and to Robert Walser for correcting my grammar. 2"Suggestions for Teaching a Course in Music Listening," Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy 4...