{"product_id":"real-country-9780822333487","title":"Real Country","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn ethnographic study of country music, and the bars, life, and everyday speech of its rural fans.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eReal Country\u003c\/i\u003e is by far the best book on Texas country music and working-class culture since Manuel Peña’s \u003ci\u003eThe Texas-Mexican Conjunto: History of a Working-Class Music \u003c\/i\u003ewas published in 1985. As opened to us by Aaron A. Fox, the working-class world of Lockhart, Texas, is complex and richly textured, and country music is its most characteristic and expressive voice. Grounded both in the most sophisticated recent scholarship and in Fox’s longtime involvement as performer and observer, \u003ci\u003eReal Country\u003c\/i\u003e extends to the music the full measure of respect it deserves. In so doing, it carries country music scholarship to a new level that will challenge and guide all subsequent commentators.”—David E. Whisnant, author of \u003ci\u003eRascally Signs in Sacred Places\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAll That Is Native and Fine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Aaron A. Fox’s \u003ci\u003eReal Country\u003c\/i\u003e gets to the heart and drama that fuels the cigarette smoke, music, talk, and beer of a honky tonk Saturday night.”—Peter Wolf, musician\u003cbr\u003e“Aaron A. Fox’s \u003ci\u003eReal Country\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful and moving study of Texas working class culture (including an articulate defense of the now heavily criticized notion of ‘culture’ itself). Combining the tools of linguistic anthropology, ethnomusicology, and sensitive ethnography, Fox performs a series of brilliant interpretations of ‘vocal practices’—country music and all kinds of talk, mostly in bars—as these actively shape personal subjectivities and interpersonal relationships. The chapter on ‘The Fool in the Mirror’ alone is worth the price of the book.”—Sherry B. Ortner, author of \u003ci\u003eNew Jersey Dreaming: Capital, Culture, and the Class of ‘58\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface ix\u003cbr\u003e A Note on Transcription Conventions xiii\u003cbr\u003e Prelude: “Turns” 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Voicing Working-Class Culture 20\u003cbr\u003e 2. Knowing Lockhart: Two Perspectives 46\u003cbr\u003e 3. “Out on the Country”: Space, Time, and Stereotype 74\u003cbr\u003e 4. “The Fool in the Mirror”: Self, Person, and Subjectivity 107\u003cbr\u003e 5. “Feeling” and “Relating”: Speech, Song, Story, and Emotion 152\u003cbr\u003e Interlude: Photo Essay 193\u003cbr\u003e 6. “Bring Me Up in a Beer Joint”: The Poetics of Speech and Song 214\u003cbr\u003e 7. “The Women Take Care of That”: Engendering Working-Class Culture 249\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Art of Singing: Speech and Song in Performance 272\u003cbr\u003e 9. “I Hang My Head and Cry”: The Character of the Voice 300\u003cbr\u003e Coda: Indigenous to Modernity 317\u003cbr\u003e Notes 323\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 357\u003cbr\u003e Index 359","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406035919191,"sku":"9780822333487","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822333487.jpg?v=1730494322","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/real-country-9780822333487","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}