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Aaron A. Fox, Real country: Music and language in working-class culture
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 October 2006
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Aaron A. Fox, Real country: Music and language in working-class culture. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. Pp., 363. Hb $79.95, Pb $22.95.
The past decade has seen a spate of books about country music. Following in the footsteps of classic work by Bill Malone, a number of these recent works are outstanding, but even the best among them (Peterson 1999; Tichi 1994, 1998; Jensen 1998) have taken a Nashville-centric perspective (or, in the case of Ching 2003, anti-Nashville-centrism), exploring and interrogating the development of country as a commercial genre. Aaron Fox's Real country, by contrast, is distinctive in its detailed ethnographic exploration of country as a lived working-class reality expressed in linguistic and musical discourse forms.
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