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Robert Christgau: Serious Music: Robert Walser's "Running With the Devil" (862 words) |
 | Walser shares this resentment, and indulges in the defensive overstatement it invariably sparks (you'd never guess that many of the young critics who grew up hearing metal remain selectively sympathetic). |
| His case for the frequently disparaged notion that musical usages have emotional meaning--based mostly on the observations of musicians themselves but shaped by the concept of permanently provisional "discourse" that is one of poststructuralism's most essential insights--is thorough and sophisticated without betraying the idea's common-sense roots. |
| Walser scores some points about glam androgyny, but cops out when he argues that metal sexism is "shaped by patriarchy" like everything else in this society--in fact, the intensity of its phallic narcissism has few parallels outside X-rated movies, toilet art, and (oh yes) rap. |
| Robert Walser (musicologist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (92 words) |
| Robert Walser is a musicologist associated with the "new musicology". |
| Robert Walser currently is a member of the faculty at the University of California, Los Angeles. |
| Biography of Robert Walser (UCLA Department of Musicology) |
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