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Dr Robert Young Walser

Bob Walser Personal web sites: Further information about Bob's activities may be found at http://www.myspace.com/bobwalser and http://www.bobandjulie.net.

Musican, scholar, and educator, Bob Walser's musical career spans decades and continents. In the early 1980s he made his living as a ‘shantyman’ at Mystic Seaport, one of the largest maritime museums in the USA. Since then he has presented ‘Folklore in Action’ folk music and dance programmes as an artist-in-residence in schools across the USA, taught at the University of St Thomas in St Paul, Minnesota, and performed as a singer, dance leader, and dance musician in the USA, England, France, Poland, and the Netherlands. He is a graduate of Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachussetts, the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and earned his PhD in ethnomusicology at the University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies.

He is presently researching sea shanties and sailors' songs as part of an international team preparing a critical edition of the James Madison Carpenter folklore collection. This work is funded by the British Academy and the National Endowment for the Humanities (USA) with the cooperation of the Library of Congress (USA) and the American Folklore Society, and is based at the Elphinstone Institute. Publications include articles and classroom materials published in the Folk Music Journal, ISMIR 2005, and by World Music Press. In addition, he has two CDs for the Old and New Tradition label to his credit as well as guest appearances on another dozen recordings in the USA, France, and England.

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