Hillbilly [[electronic resource] ] : a cultural history of an American icon / / Anthony Harkins
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| Autore: |
Harkins Anthony
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| Titolo: |
Hillbilly [[electronic resource] ] : a cultural history of an American icon / / Anthony Harkins
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Oxford University Press, 2004 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xii, 324 p. ) : ill., ports. |
| Disciplina: | 975/.00943 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Civilization |
| United States Race relations | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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, & -- 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Hillbilly |
| ISBN: | 1-280-53200-9 |
| 9786610532001 | |
| 0-19-803343-5 | |
| 1-4337-0012-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910455759003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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