This journal article provides sound evidence of the birth of a Rockabilly culture. It suggests that "hillbilly" style country music which dealt with themes such as religion, redemption and human relationships was a base for a more "electrified" Rockabillly. This article particularly deals with what was occurring musically in California, which by now had a lot of migrants from depression ridden Oklahoma. "As regional differences in America have become increasingly less pronounced, and as Nashville TN has become more pop oriented and focused toward the production of grand-slam national radio hits, the evocation of region and place in country music has appeared to suffer."
Lewis provides an apt foundation for what was defined as Rockabilly in the previously listed work of Brewer. Assertions can also be made from this that those musicians who made rockabilly music, such as Sun Records' Elvis Presley and Carl Perkins, were doing so in order to rebel against the type of music Lewis refers to as hillbilly. Instead of singing about religion and redemption, the new breed of Rockabilly musicians started singing elusively about sex and rebellion.
Although this article only deals with what was occurring in California, it alludes to a general consensus that spans America and other parts of the world as "regional differences in America became less pronounced".Another assertion can be made from this article that the psychobilly subculture of the future may have used the type of music within Lewis' research scope as a form of Shruker's bricolage which they overlaid with themes of horror, fantasy and science fiction.
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