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Looking for Real Country Audio-Visual Materials? Read This!If you're reading or teaching my 2004 book Real Country, and would like to access downloadable A/V materials (photos, audio recordings, videos, transcripts, etc.) as mentioned in the book, please send me an email at AaronFox@ethnocenter.org to request these materials, specifying your reason(s) for wanting to use them. I've decided not to make these freely available to the public for the time being, but am happy to share them for appropriate uses. Buy Real Country: Music and Language in Working-Class Culture from Amazon.com "Real Country is one of the most rewarding and insightful books yet written about country music." -- Jon Weisberger, Country Standard Time" . . . a creative, sophisticated, and beautifully written contribution to contemporary scholarship." -- Geoff Mann, Labour/Le Travail". . . a theoretically sophisticated and beautifully written
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Aaron Fox, the current Chair of the Department of Music, came to Columbia in 1997. He taught from 1994-1997 at the University of Washington, Seattle in the Departments of Anthropology and Music. He holds the PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin (1995), and the AB in Music from Harvard College. Aaron's work has broadly focused on language/music relationships, working-class and popular culture, music and social identity, issues of place and subjectivity, ethnographic methodology, and semiotics and poetics, with secondary interests in biological and cognitive scientific perspectives drawn from linguistics.
Aaron is a country and rock guitarist (and former radio DJ), whose favorite artists are Stevie Ray Vaughan, Buddy Guy, John Lee Hooker, Aerosmith, Willie Nelson, and Merle Haggard. In addition to his focus on American vernacular musics (especially country, blues, r&b, and Tejano genres), he also teaches on South Asian and Arabic art musics, Aboriginal and indigenous musics, and song as a universal, cross-cultural phenomenon. His former students teach at Connecticut College, Ewha University (Korea), The University of California, Santa Barbara, The College of Richmond, Tulane University, The University of Oklahoma, American University of Cairo, and Stony Brook University, and have held postdoctoral fellowships at Yale, Kenyon, and Columbia. Their research has been supported by fellowships and grants from NSF, ACLS, SSRC, Fulbright, IREX, Tinker Foundation, Wenner-Gren Foundation, Ford Foundation, FLAS, and other major granting agencies. At Columbia, Aaron teaches courses entitled "The Social Science of Music," "Music and Language," "Music and Property," "Country Music," "Social Theory and the Arts," "Field Methods," and occasionally, "Asian Music Humanities (South and West Asia)." He also teaches the graduate proseminars in ethnomusicology, and the graduate field methods courses. Aaron has served as a past Councilor for the Society for Ethnomusicology, and as a Board member for the American Ethnological Society. He has been Chair of the Department since 2008. From 2003-2008, he was Director of the Center for Ethnomusicology. In the last year, Aaron has been a featured speaker at The Workshop on American Indian Linguistics (UCSB), The GAMMA-UT Conference on Music and Memory (Texas/Austin), The Center for Working Class Cultural Studies at Youngstown University, the International Conference on Radio and Aural Documents (Bogota, Colombia), Digital Humanities in the Global Age (Hong Kong City University), Digital Economies and the Politics of Circulation (Columbia University), and elsewhere (see attached CV for more). Aaron's book, Real Country: Music and Language in Working-Class Culture, was published by Duke University Press in 2004. Here are some resources to learn about Aaron's work:
"Real Country is one of the most rewarding and insightful books yet written about country music." -- Jon Weisberger, Country Standard Time " . . . a creative, sophisticated, and beautifully written contribution to contemporary scholarship." -- Geoff Mann, Labour/Le Travail ". . . a theoretically sophisticated and beautifully written "Fox's work brings an important and much-needed sense of a truly materialist ideology to the study of language. It is, as well, perhaps the finest ethnographic work on music and class to have been published in the past 20 years." -- David Samuels, Language in Society
Aaron to speak at Workshop on American Indian Languages, May 8-9 2009, Santa Barbara, CaliforniaI'll be be presenting a talk on the Iñupiaq music repatriation project at the Workshop on American Indian Languages, at UC Santa Barbara. The talk is at 2PM on May 8. The program is here.
Small Town ValuesThe punditocracy and the pseudo-"journalists" of the mainstream media can't stop hyperventilating about Sarah Palin's "ordinary" and "small town" roots. Well, as someone who knows something about small towns where people own guns and go to church and all the rest, let me agree. She reminds me of the boss class of every small town I've ever known. She's that opportunist who has more money than most of her neighbors, and more ambition, and who sees her community as a mere stepping stone to greatness. She rose to power by abusing power, firing "disloyal" public servants, and spending Wasilla, Alaska into a defecit. She dispenses favors and punishments based on her own need for control and approval. Sure, there's people like her in every small town. They run for election, become mayors or city council members or school board members, and then they lord it over everyone else, pushing people around to settle family vendettas. I know her type. It's small town, alright. The worst of American small town culture. She's not the salt of the earth. She's the MSG added to hide the flavor of rot.
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