| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 324 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction: Race, Class, Popular Culture, and "the Hillbilly" -- From Yankee Doodle to "Devil Anse": Literary, Graphic, and Ideological Progenitors, 1700-1899 -- The Emergence of "Hillbilly," 1900-1920 -- Country Music and the Rise of "Ezra K. Hillbilly" in Interwar America -- Luke, Snuffy, & Abner: Hillbilly Cartoon Images in Depression-Era America -- Hollywood's Hillbilly in Mid-Twentieth-Century America -- The Hillbilly in the Living Room: Television Representations, 1952-1971 -- Epilogue: From Deliverance to Cyberspace: The Continuing Relevance of "Hillbilly" in Contemporary America |
| Summary |
"In this pioneering work of cultural history, historian Anthony Harkins argues that the hillbilly - in his various guises of "briar hopper," "brush ape," "ridge runner," and "while trash"--Has been viewed by mainstream Americans simultaneously as a violent degenerate who threatens the modern order and as a keeper of traditional values of family, home, and physical production, and thus symbolic of a nostalgic past free of the problems of contemporary life. "Hillbilly" signifies both rugged individualism and stubborn backwardness, strong family and kin networks but also inbreeding and bloody feuds."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-307) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Mountain people in popular culture -- United States
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White people in popular culture -- United States
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Popular culture -- United States.
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Group identity -- United States
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White people -- Race identity -- United States
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Mountain people -- United States -- Public opinion
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White people -- United States -- Public opinion
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Public opinion -- United States
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HISTORY -- State & Local.
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Whites in popular culture -- United States.
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Popular culture -- United States.
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Group identity -- United States.
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Whites -- United States -- Race identity.
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Mountain people -- United States -- Public opinion.
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Whites -- United States -- Public opinion.
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Public opinion -- United States.
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Mountain people in popular culture -- United States.
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Civilization
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Group identity
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Mountain people in popular culture
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Popular culture
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Public opinion
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Race relations
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White people in popular culture
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White people -- Race identity
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United States -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139934
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United States -- Race relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494
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United States -- Civilization.
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United States -- Race relations.
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780198033431 |
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0198033435 |
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0195180682 |
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9780195180688 |
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1433700123 |
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9781433700125 |
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9780195146318 |
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019514631X |
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0195189507 |
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9780195189506 |
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1280532009 |
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9781280532009 |
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9786610532001 |
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6610532001 |
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