Recommended Websites
History of the
"Hillbilly"
Review
of Harkins' Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon
Definitions
of "hillbilly" at Urban Dictionary
Appalachia in the Media (essay by Edith Sheehan)
John Fox, Jr.
Mary
Murfree
Mary Murfrees' In the Tennessee
Mountains
Official Li'l Abner
official website
Li'l Abner (Toonopedia)
Li'l Abner
(Wikipedia)
Snuffy Smith (Toonopedia)
Snuffy Smith
(Wikipedia)
Ma and Pa Kettle
The
Beverly Hillbillies (The Museum of Broadcast Communications)
The Beverly Hillbillies (Wikipedia)
Tolerance.org
on CBS Beverly Hillbillies Reality Show
Hee Haw Official Site
Hee Haw (Wikipedia)
The Center for Rural
Strategies
The Real McCoys
Deliverance
Matewan
Barney's Home Town
Library Resources:
Batteau, Allen. The Invention of Appalachia. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1990. (App-KY 305.800074 B335i)Billings, Dwight, Gurney Norman, and
Katherine Ledford, eds. Confronting Appalachian
Stereotypes: Back Talk From an American Region.
Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1999. (App-KY
306.0974 C748)
Harkins, Anthony. Hillbilly: A Cultural
History of an American Icon. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2004. (App-KY 975.00943 H282h)
McNeil, W. K., ed. Appalachian Images in Folk and Popular Culture. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1995. (App-KY 974 A6466)
Shapiro, Henry. Appalachia on Our Mind: The Southern Mountains in the American Consciousness, 1870-1920. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1978. (App-KY 301.2974 S529A)
Strangers and Kin. Appalashop< 1984. (306.2974 S529A)
Williamson, J. W. Hillybillyland:
What the Movies Did to the Mountains and What the Mountains Did to the
Movies. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina
Press, 1995. (App-KY 791.43 W731h)