| 释义 |
ˈrockaˌbilly orig. U.S.
Also rock-a-billy.
[Blend of rock and roll and hill-billy.]
1. A type of popular music, originating in the southeastern U.S., combining elements of rock and roll and hill-billy music. Also attrib.
1956Billboard 8 Dec. 22/3 Johnny Burnette is on hand to inject a touch of rockabilly in ‘Lonesome Train’. 1957Variety 23 Oct. 18/1 [The film] ‘Rockabilly Baby’ will hit a responsive chord among teenagers. 1959Times 9 Nov. 9/6 Rockabilly and hula hoops came and went. 1962Globe & Mail (Toronto) 19 Nov. 6/6, I suggest that as a public service the rock-a-billy radio stations join together to present an informative, unsponsored, prime time, two-hour program. 1971R. A. Carter Manhattan Primitive (1972) xx. 190 A drummer, a guitarist, and a trumpet player pounded out rockabilly. 1976Time 27 Sept. 90/3 Honky-tonk songs..came out of Texas in the late 1930s and early '40s. Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis adapted the style to rock 'n' roll in the '50s. Sometimes called rockabilly, it celebrates booze, gambling, fighting, steppin' out, temptation and, like all country music, love. 1980Daily Mirror 10 Apr. 12/2 Rockabilly is Eighties style. Special shops are opening to cater for the revived demand.
2. A person who performs this music.
1958Britannica Bk. of Year 519/2 Rockabilly, a word ingeniously compounded from the expressions Rock 'n' roll and Hillbilly, and meaning a country singer. 1968Rolling Stone 25 May 1/3 They called Elvis the ‘rockabilly’. 1969B. C. Malone Country Music U.S.A. 246 A hybrid specimen developed: an individual who possessed characteristics of both the rock-and-roll and country singer, the rockabilly. |