Hillbilly
A Cultural History of an American Icon
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Product details:
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Date of Publication 8 January 2004
- ISBN 9780195146318
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages336 pages
- Size 234x152x24 mm
- Weight 616 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous halftones 0
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Short description:
This well-illustrated and wide-ranging study examines a pervasive and enduring icon of American popular culture. Featured in literature, country music, comic strips, film and television shows, and even the Internet, the hillbilly has served as a mythic space through which Americans have attempted to define their personal and national identity and to reconcile the past and present.
MoreLong description:
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 "white 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. Spanning film, literature, and the entire expanse of American popular culture, from D. W. Griffith to hillbilly music to the Internet, Harkins illustrates how the image of the hillbilly
has consistently served as both a marker of social derision and regional pride. He traces the corresponding changes in representations of the hillbilly from late-nineteenth century America, through the great Depression, the mass migrations of Southern Appalachians in the 1940s and 1950s, the War on Poverty in the mid 1960s, and to the present day. and to the present day. Harkins also argues that images of hillbillies have played a critical role in the construction of whiteness and modernity in
twentieth century America. Richly illustrated with dozens of photographs, drawings, and film and television stills, this unique book stands as a testament to the enduring place of the hillbilly in the American imagination.
... a well-researched and richly illustrated tour of the hillbilly's life in the modern entertainments of music, film, television and newspaper comic pages.
