Citations:hillbillyism


 * 1) *Jul.-Sep. 1965, The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 78, No. 309, Hillbilly Issue, pages 204-228:
 * "His championing of country people is noble and has been echoed by everyone who has profited from selling country music to the folk, as well as by academicians grimly intent on rescuing "true folk music" from engulfing waves of hillbillyism."
 * 1) * 2007, Aaron K. Ketchell, Holy Hills of the Ozarks: Religion and Tourism in Branson, Missouri, JHU Press, page 184:
 * "Further elaborating on such debasement, regional historian Brooks Blevins used religious imagery to portray the enacting of hillbilly-ism as identity forfeiture and the willful bearing of others' sins: “The Ozark region has been sacrificed at the altar of American nostalgia…," "Over the past one hundred years, thousands of Ozarkers have implicated themselves in a value-laden variant of hillbillyism."