I have reservations about Rockabilly. Not necessarily any particular rockabilly group, but several of the people who I have met who present as Rockabilly styled were… let’s just say less than punk, progressive, forward thinking. At least one was on the verge of tradwife shit, honestly.
That’s fair. Psychobilly tends to have more punk/progressive tendencies, but like most music scenes, there’s a wide variety of people who self-identify into that group, not all of whom share the same values/politics. With Rockabilly in particular, you get considerable overlap between the nostalgia for the fashion and music of early rock’n’roll and the nostalgia for the politics and society of the same era.
I have reservations about Rockabilly. Not necessarily any particular rockabilly group, but several of the people who I have met who present as Rockabilly styled were… let’s just say less than punk, progressive, forward thinking. At least one was on the verge of tradwife shit, honestly.
That’s fair. Psychobilly tends to have more punk/progressive tendencies, but like most music scenes, there’s a wide variety of people who self-identify into that group, not all of whom share the same values/politics. With Rockabilly in particular, you get considerable overlap between the nostalgia for the fashion and music of early rock’n’roll and the nostalgia for the politics and society of the same era.
But thats typical to Applacian culture, right? If you dont wanna be classist, see how people compliment their background,
(some people have come a long way and still have further to go)