0 a person from a mountainous area of the US who has a simple way of life and is considered to be slightly stupid by people living in towns and cities
1 a person from a rural area who is not familiar with modern ideas and popular culture, esp. someone who lives in the mountains or far from cities or towns in the southeastern US
However, most folklorists had not yet engaged with early hillbilly, race and ethnic recordings at this time.
Although the focus of the soundtrack is on early hillbilly music - and it triggers another revival, this time of bluegrass - a racial theme, with a blues strand, is crucial.
The band had a cameo in the movie playing a hillbilly music version of the song along with some local musicians.
Her musical styles straddled hillbilly music, rockabilly and gospel.
By the 1930s, depictions of hillbilly culture in mass media typically involved two families engaged in an armed conflict over mountains and hills.
People danced to hot hillbilly music or hot string-band music.
Moonshiners, welfare cheats, and coal miners are stereotypes stemming from the greater hillbilly stereotype in the region.
Why should we go into all those towns and only sell to the hillbilly accounts?
