rockabillies

Greased-hair music fans

Rockabillies is the plural of rockabilly, which names both a music genre and its devotees.

The style fuses 1950s rock and roll with country and hillbilly music—think Elvis Presley's early recordings or Jerry Lee Lewis.

As a noun for people, rockabillies are fans who embrace the music and its retro aesthetic: pompadours, leather jackets, vintage cars.

The rockabillies gathered at the diner for the weekly car show.

culture

greasers

Machine lubricators or rebels

  • pin-upAttractive person's poster
  • jukeboxCoin-operated music player
  • dinerCasual American eatery

drive-in · Americana · rebellion · chrome · tailfins · revival · psychobilly · weekender · burlesque · kitsch

music

rock'n'roll

Electric guitar-based popular music

  • ElvisRock and roll monarch
  • guitarFretted stringed instrument
  • twangSharp vibrating sound

reverb · riff · honky-tonk · blues · boogie-woogie · crooner · hillbilly · country · tremolo · vinyl

fashion

pompadour

High-fronted upswept hairstyle

bandana · tattoos · Brylcreem · petticoat · sideburns

Opposites
musical genre/subculture

rockabilliespunks

Petty troublemakers

ravers · goths · metalheads · industrial fans · glam rockers

cultural era/nostalgia orientation

rockabilliesfuturists

Predictors of coming developments

cyberpunks · modernists · transhumanists · technophiles · ravers

Family

rockabilly, rock-and-roll

Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
Profile
Mostly American · Timeless · Concrete · Rated G