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Full-Text Articles in Cultural History
Summer 2005, 90.9 Wmpg Fm
Hillbilly: A Cultural History Of An American Icon, Anthony Harkins
Hillbilly: A Cultural History Of An American Icon, Anthony Harkins
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In this pioneering work of cultural history, historian Anthony Harkins argues that the hillbilly-in his various guises of "briar hopper," "brush ape," "ridge runner," and "white trash"-has been viewed by mainstream Americans simultaneously as a violent degenerate who threatens the modern order and as a keeper of traditional values of family, home, and physical production, and thus symbolic of a nostalgic past free of the problems of contemporary life. "Hillbilly" signifies both rugged individualism and stubborn backwardness, strong family and kin networks but also inbreeding and bloody feuds. Spanning film, literature, and the entire expanse of American popular culture, from …
Spring 2005, 90.9 Wmpg Fm
Fall/Winter 2005, 90.9 Wmpg Fm
Luxury In The Wilderness, Yellowstone's Grand Canyon Hotel, 1911-1960, Tamsen Hert
Luxury In The Wilderness, Yellowstone's Grand Canyon Hotel, 1911-1960, Tamsen Hert
Tamsen Hert
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