Word: hillbillyism
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Carmines' music is extravagantly eclectic. He writes songs about war, Joan of Arc, peace, Gertrude Stein, pornography, Jesus Christ and W.C. Fields, all in a stylistic gamut that runs from Monteverdi to Montenegro. His favorite form is an extension of the turn-of-the-century ballad, on which he...
For nearly ten years NBC's Johnny Carson has monopolized TV's late hours with his facile, funny and cool show-biz chatter. ABC hoped to cut into his audience with Dick Cavett and a more intellectual approach. CBS aimed to bring him down with that old Beverly...
Grimes, who underwent a somewhat less violent coming of age in The Summer of '42, has a scene in Culpepper that is served up to him as a piping hot cliché: The Kid's First Drink. He handles the whole thing very gracefully by taking his belt...
It is sure that mountaineers sang and played music long before the word "hillbilly" was printed and before it was coupled with "music." And their music was always a direct reflection of a life-style. From the hill-country sections of North Carolina. Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia, out of...
Yet not all of country music has gained the acceptance of mass audiences. Traditional American mountain music remains relatively undiscovered, although a growing number of urban listeners are becoming familiar with the old time songs through occasional concerts by traditional artists. These are usually held at folk festivals, as the...