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Real country : music and language in working-class culture / Aaron A. Fox.
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 & rsquo;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 & ldquo;Hoppy & rdquo; 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.
Record details
- ISBN: 0822333368
- ISBN: 0822385996
- ISBN: 1283023865
- ISBN: 6613023868
- ISBN: 9780822333364
- ISBN: 9780822385998
- ISBN: 9781283023863
- ISBN: 9786613023865
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 363 pages) : illustrations
- Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | CatMonthString:september.21 Multi-User. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-356) and indexes. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | "Turns" -- Voicing working-class culture -- Knowing Lockhart: two perspectives -- Out the country : space, time, and stereotype -- The fool in the mirror : self, person, and subjectivity -- "Feeling" and "relating" : speech, song, story, and emotion -- Bring me up in a beer joint : the poetics of speech and song -- The women take care of that : engendering working-class culture -- The art of singing : speech and song in performance -- "I hang my head and cry" : the character of the voice. |
| Restrictions on Access Note: | Restrictions unspecified |
| Type of Computer File or Data Note: | Text (HTML), electronic book. |
| Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. |
| System Details Note: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 Mode of access: Internet. |
| Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription. |
| Language Note: | English. |
| Issuing Body Note: | Made available online by JSTOR. |
| Action Note: | digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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