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Originally, "hillbilly" was used to describe fiddlers and string bands, but now it was used to describe traditional Appalachian music. Appalachians had never used this term to describe their own music. Popular songs whose style bore characteristics of both hillbilly and African American music were referred to as hillbilly boogie and rockabilly.
The term "Hillbilly" was first coined in 1899, around the time coal industries made an appearance in the Appalachian communities. [20] In reference to Appalachia, the utilization of the word "Hillbilly" has become such a commonplace that the term is often used to characterize the sociological and geographical happenings of the area.
My Mexican hillbilly family never had time to whine and mope. ... He has endorsed the use of American military forces to go after drug cartels in Mexico while opposing amnesty for immigrants ...
By the 1950s and 1960s, the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago had gained a reputation as a "Hillbilly Heaven". For several decades, the neighborhood was locally famous for being an enclave of white Southern migrants, many of whom were from Appalachia. While many Appalachian and Southern migrants settled in other Chicago neighborhoods, the ...
Both the 2016 novel "Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis" by JD Vance and its 2020 film adaptation by Ron Howard ("A Beautiful Mind," "American Graffiti," "The DaVinci Code ...
While "Hillbilly Highway" is a metaphor, many Appalachian people who arrived in Detroit literally traveled along "Hillbilly Highways" such as U.S. Route 23 and Interstate 75. [3] [4] In Chad Berry's Southern Migrants, Northern Exiles, he claims that 66,000 white Appalachian people resided in Detroit in 1930.
Before Vance’s political career, he was known for being the author of memoir Hillbilly Elegy, which was later adapted into a Netflix film. Close played Vance’s grandmother Mawmaw in the movie ...
Albert Green Hopkins (1889 – October 21, 1932) [1] was an American musician, a pioneer of what later came to be called country music; in 1925 he originated the earlier designation of this music as "hillbilly music", [2] though not without qualms about its pejorative connotation. [1] Hopkins played piano, an unusual instrument for Appalachian ...