Hillbilly

we were gone before sunrise the next morning we didn’t even stop for gas until we saw the sign that said “Welcome to Tennessee” and Dad could assure Momma that we were safe and no longer in Alabama and up till Ohio we were just driving along the hillbilly countryside. Once we hit about the middle of Ohio and everyone, but Dad had dozed off or fallen asleep I decided to rest too. By the time I woke up we were about half way through Ohio and all I could think about was the fact that Kenny and Joey…

illiterate, unable to read or write because they were never pushed in school and ended up dropping out before graduation. This is not because they didn’t want to learn, but because of their deep southern accent or what many people think of as a hillbilly accent they didn’t have a teacher educational system that believed in. They assume that because they were from the country then surely they must be simple and unintelligent.…

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Music can grasp a strong bond between people and events. The influence of music in the 1930s was overwhelmingly impactful. With new genres coming in, new clubs opening, and new singers emerging, the 1930s was an uplifting time. People were shaping up their lives, and recovering from the horrid “Great Depression.” Music held a strong relationship with people as they were doing so, and helped them live everyday without sadness or sorrow. The jazz age was ending, but the music was still maturing.…

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Country music has changed through the years. Country music today is much different than the country music you would have heard even just 15 years ago. There are a verity of different forms of country now which is all still put under one category but I would say that you could split it up into at least two. Today’s Country music is very much on the mainstream and popish where 20 years ago it had a specific sound; you would hear it and so oh that’s country. It is actually sometimes quite…

group. Therefore, people, especially those people who lived in rural areas, were able to connect with them on a personal level and thought of them as normal people. Also, back in those days, musical instruments were the primary importance of early "hillbilly" music, not the actual vocals. The Carter Family, with their harmonies, were able to use their instruments in such a way that it complemented and not overshadowed their…

are. Peoples perceptions about us are often based on where we are from. People expect me to talk like Mark Whalberg in Ted and while he is from Boston he uses an awful over the top fake accent. People expect southners to sound like the Beverly Hillbillies, but not all of them do. The north and the south are different. Both are different and both are good. Both the north and the south are home to amazing…

status. After his parents divorce Wary took shame in in being too poor to pay for their own food. Knowing that common names were given to people like them, people who inhabited these broken down worlds inscribed by names such as: cracker, redneck, hillbilly, and poor white trash. Wray lived first hand to the torment that lingered around the association of poor white trash. Wray Not Quite White is important is significant because it was among the first published books to look at the study of…

to be different when they both were around at the same time years ago. In todays society, there are different types of people who listens to different types of music and not just their cultural music. Country is a combination of blues,, jazz, and hillbilly folk. Country music can be stereotyped. It can be assumed that a person who wears a cowboy hat with wrangler jeans can be a country music fan. That stereotype is often true, but may not always be the case. Country music entertains a different…