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Series: Refiguring American Music
Published: 21 January 2010
DOI: 10.1215/9780822392705-008
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9270-5
Published: 28 June 2013
DOI: 10.1215/9780822394976-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9497-6
Book Chapter

By Lennard J. Davis
Published: 11 October 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5997-4
... J.D. Vance Hillbilly Elegy poverty memoir poverty porn ...
Published: 11 October 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059974-009
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5997-4
... This interchapter looks at four books about poverty written in recent years. These are J. D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy , Dorothy Allison’s Bastard out of Carolina , Justin Torres’s We the Animals , and Joseph Earl Thomas’s Sink . The only overtly political book is Vance’s right-wing screed...
Series: Singles
Published: 11 October 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027645-006
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2764-5
...) and “hillbilly”/“Folk” (Country) and has tried various methodologies to determine these formats' borders. In the analog music era, the magazine's genre methodologies were widely trusted, but the flattening effect of digital music consumption has made it hard to pinpoint genre audiences. These tensions broke...
Published: 21 February 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060369-007
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6036-9
... Appalachian folk magic traditions, which are widely practiced throughout the mountainous region of the eastern United States, are referred to as granny magic, hillbilly hoodoo, doctoring, and cunning , among other terms. This chapter covers the historical context of granny women and other magic...
Published: 21 February 2025
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6036-9
..., hillbilly hoodoo, doctoring, and cunning , among other terms. This chapter covers the historical context of granny women and other magic workers, followed by an overview of key traditions such as planting by the signs, biblical charms, and traditional medicine. Although these descriptions can invoke...