Real Country : Music and Language in Working-Class Culture /

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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 Countr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fox, Aaron A., 1964- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Arbeidersklasse.
Antropologische linguïstiek.
Country-muziek.
Sprache
Arbeiterklasse
Countrymusic
Working class.
Music and language.
Country music.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Country & Bluegrass.
Musique et langage.
Travailleurs > Texas > Lockhart > Chants et musique > Histoire et critique.
Country (Musique) > Texas > Lockhart > Histoire et critique.
Working class > Texas > Lockhart > Songs and music > History and criticism.
Country music > Texas > Lockhart > History and criticism.
Verenigde Staten.
Texas
Texas > Lockhart.
Musique.
Music.
Songs.
Songs and music.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "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.

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