rockabilly
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- noun
- /ˈrɑkəˌbɪli/
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rockabilly
- The festival celebrated rockabilly culture with live performances, vintage cars, and swing dancing.
- rockabilly singer
- rockabilly music
- rockabilly tune
Examples
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The life-sized Hello Kitty and official Build-a-Bear mascots were on hand to greet guests while High Jinx performed onstage with renditions of blues, rockabilly, and of course, a Christmas tune or two.
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The band's latest album features several tracks that showcase the vibrant sound of rockabilly music.
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From the car radio, rockabilly music plays.
Fiction book (1994) -
In "Jailhouse Rock", he was everything rockabilly is about.
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Rockabilly and Western Swing existed right beside many other popular genres in their time.
Blog text (25) -
He can sing anything in the baritone range: country, soul, classics, and rockabilly.
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Her immeasurable influence spanning country, rockabilly, and rock and roll is undeniable.
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Additionally, as my friend Don Maddox of the Maddox Brothers & Rose has explained to me, country, rockabilly, and rock and roll really came into existence all at the same time.
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The loudness of the Rockabilly song slaps Sonny and Otis in their faces as they walk inside the door.
Fiction book (1994) -
She walks to the jukebox in the back, inserts the quarter, selects a song, punches the buttons, a needle lands on a record, and a hard-hitting rockabilly tune cuts through the coffee shop.
Fiction book (1994)
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Rockabilly comes from joining rock and hillbilly. 'Hillbilly' was a name for country music and people from the hills, so rockabilly means music that joins 'rock and roll' and 'country'. That's why it refers to the 1950s style that mixes both sounds.