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Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harkins, Anthony, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mountain people in popular culture--United States.
- Mountain people in popular culture.
- White people in popular culture--United States.
- White people in popular culture.
- Popular culture--United States.
- Popular culture.
- Group identity--United States.
- Group identity.
- White people--Race identity--United States.
- White people.
- Mountain people--United States--Public opinion.
- Mountain people.
- White people--United States--Public opinion.
- Public opinion--United States.
- Public opinion.
- United States--Civilization.
- United States.
- United States--Race relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 324 p.) : ill., ports.,.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-988191-X
- OCLC:
- 1059118602
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