{"id":2,"date":"2010-06-07T16:50:30","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T20:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2018-11-24T22:47:59","modified_gmt":"2018-11-25T04:47:59","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Bob"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1275\" style=\"width: 420px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bob-Walser-997.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1275\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1275\" src=\"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bob-Walser-997-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Bob Walser\" width=\"410\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bob-Walser-997-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bob-Walser-997-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bob-Walser-997-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1275\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click photo for high-res press version<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Musician, scholar and educator Bob Walser\u2019s musical career spans decades and continents. In the early 1980s he made his living as a shantyman (!) at <a title=\"Mystic Seaport Museum\" href=\"http:\/\/mysticseaport.org\">Mystic Seaport<\/a>, one of the largest maritime museums in the USA. Since then he has presented Folklore In Action folk music and dance programs as an artist-in-residence in schools across the USA, and performed as a singer, dance leader and dance musician from Maine to California and overseas.<\/p>\n<p>As a scholar, Bob earned his Ph.D. in ethnomusicology at the University of London, <a title=\"School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London\" href=\"http:\/\/www.soas.ac.uk\">School of Oriental and African Studies<\/a>. His research in Folk Music and Music Education has been published in the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Folk Song Journal<\/span> (UK) and publications by World Music Press. Since 2002 he has worked with an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abdn.ac.uk\/elphinstone\/carpenter\/elements\/personnel\/\">international team of scholars<\/a> on the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/folklife\/guides\/carpenter.html\"> James Madison Carpenter folksong collection<\/a> in a project based at the <a title=\"The Elphinstone Institute\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abdn.ac.uk\/elphinstone\/index.php\">Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen, Scotland<\/a>. In addition, he has three CDs on <a title=\"The Old and New Tradition\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oldandnewtradition.com\">The Old and New Tradition<\/a> label to his credit as well as guest appearances on another dozen recordings in the US, France and England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musician, scholar and educator Bob Walser\u2019s 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 programs as an artist-in-residence in schools across&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}