Word: hillbillyism
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The dominant popular music of the U.S. today is hillbilly.
Even many of Tin Pan Alley's bestsellers, such tunes as You'll Never Know, Comin' in on a Wing and a Prayer, There's a Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere, were fragrant with hillbilly spirit. All over the country were the Appalachian accents of the...
All this constituted the biggest revolution in U.S. popular musical taste since the "swing" craze began in the middle '30s. Public demand was shifting from Afro-American stomps and blues to a much simpler (and often monotonous) musical idiom that was old when nostalgic '49ers were singing Clementine...
backwoods by generations of hard-bitten country folk, the old hillbilly ballads are sometimes of rare melodic beauty. But most of them hew closely to a few homely, foursquare formulas. The songs get their quality, if any, from their words - long narrative poems evolved by generations of backwoods minstrels.
In his tough campaign against hillbilly-ish Eugene Talmadge last year, no Arnall supporters were more effective than college students infuriated by the Talmadge purge of the State's universities. Too young to vote, they worked on their parents, hounded local political leaders, burned Gene Talmadge in effigy all...