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Autore: | Harkins Anthony |
Titolo: | Hillbilly [[electronic resource] ] : a cultural history of an American icon / / Anthony Harkins |
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 | |
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.: | 9910780114503321 |
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