Real Country: Music and Language in Working-Class Culture

In Lockhart, Texas, a rural working-class town just south of Austin, country music is a way of...
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Author: Aaron A. Fox
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Real Country: Music and Language in Working-Class Culture by Fox, Aaron A.

Real Country: Music and Language in Working-Class Culture

$95.18

Real Country: Music and Language in Working-Class Culture

$95.18
Author: Aaron A. Fox
Format: Paperback
Language: English
In Lockhart, Texas, a rural working-class town just south of Austin, country music is a way of life. Conversation slips easily into song, and the songs are full of conversation. Anthropologist and musician Aaron A. Fox spent years in Lockhart making research notes, music, and friends. In Real Country, he provides an intimate, in-depth ethnography of the community and its music. Showing that country music is deeply embedded in the textures of working-class life, Fox argues that it is the cultural and intellectual property of working-class people and not only of the Nashville-based music industry or the stars whose lives figure so prominently in popular and scholarly writing about the genre.

Fox spent hundreds of hours observing, recording, and participating in talk and music-making in homes, beer joints, and garage jam sessions. He renders the everyday life of Lockhart's working-class community in detail, right down to the ice cold beer, the battered guitars, and the technical skills of such local musical legends as Randy Meyer and Larry "Hoppy" Hopkins. Throughout, Fox focuses on the human voice. His analyses of conversations, interviews, songs, and vocal techniques show how feeling and experience are expressed, and how local understandings of place, memory, musical aesthetics, working-class social history, race, and gender are shared. In Real Country, working-class Texans re-imagine their past and give voice to the struggles and satisfactions of their lives in the present through music.



Author: Aaron A. Fox
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 10/06/2004
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.84w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780822333487


Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2005 pg. 1030
Foreword 03/01/2005 pg. 52
Univ PR Books for Public Libry 01/01/2005 pg. 62 - Recommended/Regional General
Foreword 08/19/2009

About the Author

Aaron A. Fox is Associate Professor of Music and Director of the Center for Ethnomusicology at Columbia University. He is a guitarist and singer who has played with many bands in Texas. He has hosted country music radio programs on several stations in New York City and continues to guest-host shows on a regular basis.
To visit Aaron A. Fox's website and blog, please click here.


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