There’s a point made in the film — which has won many honors, including the jury prize at the Los Angeles Film Festival — that beyond the term hillbilly there’s a lack of knowledge about the people of ...

Vice President JD Vance's 2016 memoir "Hillbilly Elegy" has been criticized by many who feel it is an inaccurate portrayal of ...

A study of recorded music of Appalachia (hillbilly) and cowboy music collected by Joe Bussard. Collection contains tape recordings of early country music, c. 1930s, plus transciptions arranged by ...

"It’s full of untruths, intentionally manipulative stories," said an Appalachian scholar. Here's why the book was so controversial ...

Netflix’s ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ is a lazy caricature, but not the one you think The film adaptation of J.D. Vance’s requiem for Appalachia misfires in its portrayal of Trump era culture wars.

As legend has it, two neighboring families in the backwoods of Appalachia waged a crude ... story of mountain lust and violence between “hillbillies,” the Hatfield-McCoy feud was a microcosm ...