Fox, Aaron

About Me

Position/Title:

Associate Professor of Music

Chair, Department of Music

Aaron Fox came to Columbia in 1997, after teaching anthropology at the University of Washington from 1994-97. He holds the PhD in social anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin. His publications include the 2004 book Real Country: Music and Language in Working-Class Culture (Duke Univ. Press) as well as articles on country music, music/language relationships, and working-class culture. From 2003-2008, he directed Columbia's Center for Ethnomusicology.

In July 2008, Prof. Ana Maria Ochoa took over as Director of the Center for Ethnomusicology. Prof. Fox is now Chair of the Department of Music.

Please see Aaron Fox's "Personal FAQ" [1] for answers to many common inquiries.

Academic Background

Degrees:

PhD, Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin, 1995

AB, Music, Harvard College, 1988

Selected Publications:

Real Country: Music, Language, and Feeling in Texas Working-Class Culture, Duke University Press.

"White Trash Alchemies of the Abject Sublime: Country as 'Bad Music.'" in C. Washburne and Maiken Derno, eds., Bad Music: The Music We Love to Hate. New York: Routledge. (2004).

"Music." (with Steven Feld, David Samuels, and Thomas Porcello) in A . Duranti, ed., The Blackwell Companion to Linguistic Anthropology, Oxford: Basil Blackwell. (February, 2004).

"'Funny how time slips away': Talk, Trash, and Technology in 'Redneck' Culture," in Knowing Your Place: Rusticity and Identity (New York: Routledge, 1997)

"Music and Language" (with Steven Feld), Annual Review of Anthropology 23 (1994)

"The Jukebox of History: Narratives of Loss and Desire in the Discourse of Country Music," Popular Music 11 (1992)

Current Projects:

See this article: http://music.columbia.edu/cecenter/BASC/ [2]

Contact Information

Office:

621B Dodge Hall

Office Hours:

By appointment only

Columbia e-mail:

aaf19@columbia.edu [3]

Telephone Number: