Aaron A. Fox

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
ethnography, giving readers a lyrical depiction of working class Texan
barroom life, while developing a theory of the speaking and singing
voice as central to working class culture." -- Wendi Haugh, Anthropological Quarterly"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"Fox has written an extraordinary, evocative, and respectful study that offers scholars in anthropology, linguistics, musicology, and sociology access to a culture that is all too often dismissed, sentimentalized, or ignored . . ." -- Joli Jensen, Journal of Anthropological Research