Aaron A Fox

Biographic Data

ID103771
NAMEAaron A Fox
GIVEN NAMESAaron A
FAMILY NAMEFox
SIGNATUREFOX A A
AFFILIATIONSThe University of Texas at Austin
ORCID0009-0003-7686-6820
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS16
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1992
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX1

  • Roy's love for dogs

    Open AccessAaron A FoxARTICLEAnthropology & Humanism2023

    In this "hundreds" honoring Kathleen Stewart, I tell a story about an Inuit hunter and his love for dogs

  • Divesting from Ethnomusicology

    Aaron A FoxARTICLEJournal of Musicology2020

    This response to Amico’s paper draws lessons from the author’s own career to endorse Amico’s call to rename the discipline of “ethnomusicology,” while cautioning against the risks of nominalism as a sufficient response to the underlying tensions animating dissatisfaction with the current name of the discipline. The response emphasizes points of convergence and divergence between diverse disciplinary practices of music scholarship and locates a pr…

  • American Ethnological Society

    Open AccessAaron A FoxARTICLEAnthropology News2006

  • Real Country

    Aaron A FoxBOOKReal Country2004

    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 Country, he provides an intimate, in-depth ethnography of the community and its music. Showing that country music is deeply embedded in the textures of work…

  • A Place to Stand

    Open AccessAaron A FoxARTICLEJournal of Linguistic Anthropology2004Cited by: 1

    A Place to Stand: Politics and Persuasion in. Working-Class Bar Julie Lindquist Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002 viii. 204 pp

  • Film reviews

    Todd J Tubutis, Harald E L Prins et al.ARTICLEVisual Anthropology1998Cited by: 1

    Dead Man Dead Man. Written and directed by Jim Jarmusch; produced by Demetra McBride; camera: Robby Muller. 1996, 120 minutes, black and white, in English, Blackfoot, Cree, and Makah, with no subtitles. Distributed by Miramax. Indigenous Media and the Articulation of Native Identity: Two Mi'kmaq Videos Kwa’ nu'te'/Micmac and Maliseet Artists. Directed by Catherine Anne Martin and Kimberlee McTaggart. 1991, 41 minutes, VHS, color. Produced by the …

  • Songs of the Old Regular Baptists

    Aaron A Fox, Jeff Titon et al.ARTICLEYearbook for Traditional Music1998

  • Music and Language

    Steven Feld, Aaron A FoxARTICLEAnnual Review of Anthropology1994

    Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More

  • The Poetics of Irony and the Ethnography of Class Culture

    Open AccessAaron A FoxARTICLEAnthropology & Humanism1994Cited by: 1References: 6

  • Pickin' on Peachtree

    Aaron A Fox, Wayne W DanielARTICLEEthnomusicology1993

  • The jukebox of history

    Open AccessAaron A FoxARTICLEPopular Music1992Cited by: 13References: 2

    Is country music for real? This question haunts country's detractors, critics, fans and analysts, as it haunts all students of popular culture. Country music is only an extreme example of the instability, contradiction and ironic reflexivity characteristic of popular cultural forms in general in postmodern, capitalist society. It seems impossible to locate an 'authentic' country music text, performance or context, one which represents the 'real' …