...Alison Collis Green Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis . By J. D. Vance . New York : HarperCollins , 2016 . 272 pp., $27.99 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-06-230054-6 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 Featured Review Hillbilly Exile ALISON COLLIS...

...John Hayes Hillbilly Hellraisers: Federal Power and Populist Defiance in the Ozarks . By J. Blake Perkins . Urbana : University of Illinois Press , 2017 . 296 pp., $24.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-252-08289-4. © 2020 Agricultural History Society 2020 672 Agricultural History...

...Ron Pen Smile When You Call Me a Hillbilly: Country Music’s Struggle for Respectability, 1939-1954 . Jeffrey J. Lange . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 488 / AgriculturaHl istory southern towns,public history,and the techniques of researchinga community'shistory...

...Renée M. Laegreid [email protected] Hillbilly Maidens, Okies, and Cowgirls: Women's Country Music, 1930–1960 . By Stephanie Vander Wel . Urbana : University of Illinois Press , 2020 . 272 pp., $25.95 , paperback, ISBN 9780252084959 . Copyright © 2024 the Agricultural...

.... By JeffreyJ.Lange.Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2004. 336 pp., $25.95, paperback, ISBN 0-8203-2623-2. "Don'tlet's call it 'hillbilly,l'et's call it somethingelse. So I thought,'why not country'sincewe allcomefromthe country?" -Ernest Tubb Despite its very name, the musical genre known today as "countrymusic" owns...

..., criminally inclined, intellectually stunted, and genetically inferior. This perception was mirrored through popular culture in books like Erskine Caldwell's Tobacco Road , TV shows like The Beverly Hillbillies , and movies like Deliverance . In his provocative book Peculiar Places , Ryan Cartwright puts...

... perception of the region as a backward land of hillbillies, arguing that the people inhabiting the Ozarks have always been integrated into broader markets. One of the core purposes of this study is to dispel the myth that the people of the Ozarks are somehow distinct from the rest of America. This perception...

.... Once stereotyped as the music of "hillbillies" or "rednecks," country music has unarguably entered the American mainstream. In this well-timed collec? tion of essays, Charles K. Wolfe and James E. Akenson have compiled a solid representation of contemporary scholarship that focuses on the significant...

... is one of the book s strongest attributes. Rube Tube deftly traces how Cold War paranoia, social unrest, and television scandals spurred the creation of these rural-themed shows. Eskridge s work on television programs outside of the ruralcoms provides a deeper context for why the Beverly Hillbillies, Hee...

.... Wolfe and James E. Akenson. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2003. 240 pp., $28.00, hardback, ISBN 0-8131-2280-5. Once stereotyped as the music of "hillbillies" or "rednecks," country music has unarguably entered the American mainstream. In this well-timed collec? tion of essays, Charles K...

... bestselling Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (2016). Even so, Wuthnow s account leaves many unanswered questions and lacks historical perspectives that could have provided more compelling insights on rural outrage and its manifestations in right-wing politics. The usefulness...

... and the American Heritage," Virginia Quarterly Review 58 ( Autumn 1982 ): 629 -30; Anthony Harkins , Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004 ), 47 -69; J. W. Williamson , Hillbillyland: What the Movies Did to the Mountains...

..., and the Culture of a Counterculture," Western Historical Quarterly 36 (Autumn 2005): 278-79. 16 "The Story of Hippie Hillbillies," Seers Rio Grande Weekly, Oct. 4-17, 1975, 1, 23 Rick Seymour, "The Other Side of the Hippie Story," in The Morningstar Scrapbook: ’n the Pursuit of Happiness, Unohoo, Coyote...

... engineer from Chicago. And the feisty, wiry little old man under the straw hat?the one who looks as though he just stepped out of a ten-cent hillbilly postcard?is a retired trucking company owner from Des Moines who spent his first years in northern Arkansas living in a yellow school bus. You probably...

... and what I felt he stood for.” Although town people often misunderstood farmers, she believed that a life in agriculture was a life well lived. She continued, “I went through the teasing of being a dumb farmer and hillbilly but always tried my best in school to show the town kids us farmer's daughters...