Tiki Oasis 2013 - HulaBilly - Official thread - California Events

J JOHN-O Tiki Socialite Dogtown, USA Joined: May 16, 2008 Posts: 2721	J JOHN-O Posted posted on Sat, Jun 15, 2013 11:32 AM On 2013-06-12 12:36, Tiki-ESP wrote: I love the discourse we are having here John-O... ...That * [sic Otto's]* introduction never mentions hillbilly, which is sometimes considered to be a derogatory slang term. Yet, there are posts here that are doing everyone interested in learning more about Hulabilly a disservice... Well to me you really don't have to explicity use the word "hillbilly" if you take into consideration the history of Country music. "Hillbilly" back in the 1920's through the 1940's, was the popular term for the musical genre we now refer to as Country. Here's an seminal Hulabilly example from 1929... Everybody Does It In Hawaii by Jimmie Rodgers, performing his Hillbilly yodel. If you take the Hillbilly out of Hulabilly, all you'll have left is the Hula. :)

On 2013-06-12 12:36, Tiki-ESP wrote:

I love the discourse we are having here John-O...

...That * [sic Otto's]* introduction never mentions hillbilly, which is sometimes considered to be a derogatory slang term. Yet, there are posts here that are doing everyone interested in learning more about Hulabilly a disservice...

Well to me you really don't have to explicity use the word "hillbilly" if you take into consideration the history of Country music. "Hillbilly" back in the 1920's through the 1940's, was the popular term for the musical genre we now refer to as Country.

Here's an seminal Hulabilly example from 1929...

Everybody Does It In Hawaii by Jimmie Rodgers, performing his Hillbilly yodel.

If you take the Hillbilly out of Hulabilly, all you'll have left is the Hula. :)

Post #682127 by JOHN-O on Sat, Jun 15, 2013 11:32 AM