Aaron Fox is an American ethnomusicologist, anthropologist, and linguist. He is the Chair of the Department of Music at Columbia University, which includes undergraduate music, as well as graduate music studies (including Ethnomusicology). He is also the Director of the Center for Ethnomusicology at Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

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Aaron Fox's scholarly approach is heavily focused on working-class culture and music; language and music; class, music, and identity; ethnographic theory and method; intellectual history of social, especially ethnomusicological, thought; intellectual property rights. More recently he has studied Inuit

Inuit

The Inuit are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic regions of Canada , Denmark , Russia and the United States . Inuit means “the people” in the Inuktitut language...

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He teaches one undergraduate class per year at Columbia University. He is also a country

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 guitarist, and a radio deejay

Radio DeeJay

Radio DeeJay is an italian radio station. It was founded on 1 February 1982 by the Italian radio and television personality Claudio Cecchetto and was acquired by the Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso in 1989 .-Overview:Early personalities on this radio station include: Claudio Cecchetto, Gerry Scotti,...

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