ROBERT WALSER is Professor and Chairman of Musicology at UCLA. He is editor of Keeping Time: Readings in Jazz History (Oxford University Press, 1999) and of the journal American Music.
Rolling Stone"
SF Weekly"
The Nation"
Washington Post"
"Making surprising connections to classical forms and debunking
stereotypes of metal's musical crudity, Walser delves
enthusiastically into guitar conventions and rituals."--Washington
Post
"Running with the Devil takes musicology where it has never gone
before; I once saw the chapter on metal guitarists and the
classical tradition performed live in a lecture hall, but even on
paper it smokes."--SF Weekly
"Walser belongs to a small but influential group of academics
trying to reconcile 'high theory' with a streetwise sense of
culture . . . an excellent book." --Rolling Stone
"Walser is truly gifted at doing what few critics before him have
done: analyzing the music . . . In virtuoso readings of metal music
that forge persuasive links between metal and particular classical
music traditions, Walser reveals the ways that musical structures
themselves are social texts." --The Nation
Rolling Stone"
SF Weekly"
The Nation"
Washington Post"
"Making surprising connections to classical forms and debunking
stereotypes of metal's musical crudity, Walser delves
enthusiastically into guitar conventions and rituals."--Washington
Post
"Running with the Devil takes musicology where it has never gone
before; I once saw the chapter on metal guitarists and the
classical tradition performed live in a lecture hall, but even on
paper it smokes."--SF Weekly
"Walser belongs to a small but influential group of academics
trying to reconcile 'high theory' with a streetwise sense of
culture . . . an excellent book." --Rolling Stone
"Walser is truly gifted at doing what few critics before him have
done: analyzing the music . . . In virtuoso readings of metal music
that forge persuasive links between metal and particular classical
music traditions, Walser reveals the ways that musical structures
themselves are social texts." --The Nation
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