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Real Country: Music and Language in Working-Class Culture.(Book Review)

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| September 01, 2005 | Laird, Tracey E.W. | COPYRIGHT 2005 Music Library Association, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Real Country: Music and Language in Working-Class Culture. By Aaron A. Fox. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. [xv, 363 p. ISBN 0-8223-3348-1. $22.95.] Illustrations, index, bibliography.

As a relatively young field of academic inquiry, country music benefits from a wide range of scholarly paradigms and passions, and from the refreshing sense that its agendas have yet to be fully articulated. Indeed, the parameters of its study are in constant flux, and it is little wonder. Country music contains multitudes: it invites us to examine a music born at the intersection of folk and commercial practices with a history of navigating back and forth across both. It ...

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