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hillbilly music

noun

Definition of hillbilly music

: country music

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 Olson writes that the Bristol Sessions were one of the first times a producer had traveled to a rural area to record the hillbilly music sound. — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, "How the Bristol Sessions Created Country Music," 4 Aug. 2017 There’s still the lope of hillbilly music—the steady one-two, one-two striding across the song’s landscape—but inside that is this tight dance beat. — Longreads, "How Does It Feel? An Alternative American History, Told With Folk Music," 26 Oct. 2017

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First Known Use of hillbilly music

1943, in the meaning defined above

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