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The music industry once called folk music hillbilly
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Early record executives were incredibly blunt about their target demographics. In the nineteen twenties, pure acoustic folk and string band recordings were explicitly and proudly categorized in industry catalogs as hillbilly music, a term they viewed not as an insult, but as an incredibly lucrative business strategy.
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