Hillbilly
Subtitle: A Cultural History of an American Icon
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: August 15, 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780195189506
First sentence: The twentieth-century hillbilly image had its origins in three related but separate literary and illustrative traditions that reach back at least as far as the colonial era: portrayals of the rural rube; conceptions of poor whites of the southern backcountry; and images of the inhabitants of the southern mountain regions.