Word: hillbillyism
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Vecsey might have worked out some of the flaws of perspective in this very fine book if he had put himself into it more. He is silent and unobtrusive throughout, which is fine when he glides into a section about union history or a polemic on strip mining, but we...
"His work didn't mean anything to me. But he did exactly what he wanted to do, every day for 85 years, and how many of us can claim that much?" In its way, that young Manhattan artist's comment on Thomas Hart Benton, who died of heart...
"I'm a hillbilly," Miller says with an Appalachian twang, "and I'm proud of that." The son and grandson of miners, he was born in the town of Leewood (pop. 250), in the Cabin Creek region southeast of Charleston, W. Va. After finishing a ninth-grade education...
Hemphill is a former columnist for The Atlanta Journal who, since going freelance a few years ago, has become one of the people who interprets the South for the magazine-reading public. It's a position similar to that of travel/adventure writers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries...
That kind of complaint goes back at least as far as Woody Guthrie's eloquent pleas for the migratory workers during the Depression. Commercial country was born in the 1920s out of an amalgamation of American folk, British airs and hymns, and Negro gospel and blues. The New York...