Hillbilly [[electronic resource] ] : a cultural history of an American icon / / Anthony Harkins

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910816735903321
• Autore: Harkins Anthony
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Oxford University Press, 2004
• ISBN: 1-280-53200-9; 9786610532001; 0-19-803343-5; 1-4337-0012-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 324 p. ) : ill., ports.
• Disciplina: 975/.00943
• Soggetti: Mountain people in popular culture - United States; White people in popular culture - United States; Popular culture - United States; Group identity - United States; White people - Race identity - United States; Mountain people - United States - Public opinion; White people - United States - Public opinion; Public opinion - United States; United States Civilization; United States Race relations
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Formerly CIP.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-307) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Race, Class, Popular Culture, and "the Hillbilly" -- Chapter one: From Yankee Doodle to "Devil Anse": Literary, Graphic, and Ideological Progenitors, 1700-1899 -- Chapter two: The Emergence of "Hillbilly," 1900-1920 -- Chapter three: Country Music and the Rise of "Ezra K. Hillbilly" in Interwar America -- Chapter four: Luke, Snuffy, &amp -- Abner: Hillbilly Cartoon Images in Depression-Era America -- Chapter five: Hollywood's Hillbilly in Mid-Twentieth-Century America -- Chapter six: The Hillbilly in the Living Room: Television Representations, 1952-1971 -- Epilogue: From Deliverance to Cyberspace: The Continuing Relevance of "Hillbilly" in ; Contemporary America -- Postscript -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Non-Print Cultural Productions -- Films -- Radio Programs -- Songs -- Television Programs -- General Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: This text argues that the hillbilly - in his various guises - has been viewed by mainstream Americans simultaneously as a violent degenerate who threatens the modern order and as a keeper of traditional values and thus symbolic of a nostalgic past free of the problems of contemporary life.