Description
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.
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Available
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Publication
New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
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ISBN
019514631X / 9780195146318
Other editions
Hillbilly a cultural history of an American icon by Anthony Harkins (Paper Book)