Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Race, Class, Popular Culture, and "the Hillbilly"
  • From Yankee Doodle to "Devil Anse": Literary, Graphic, and Ideological Progenitors, 1700-1899
  • The Emergence of "Hillbilly," 1900-1920
  • Country Music and the Rise of "Ezra K. Hillbilly" in Interwar America
  • Luke, Snuffy, & Abner: Hillbilly Cartoon Images in Depression-Era America
  • Hollywood's Hillbilly in Mid-Twentieth-Century America
  • The Hillbilly in the Living Room: Television Representations, 1952-1971
  • Epilogue: From Deliverance to Cyberspace: The Continuing Relevance of "Hillbilly" in Contemporary America.