American culture

American culture

Art, music, literature, people, sports, technology, business, politics, religion and more in the United States. American culture is primarily Western, but is influenced by African, Asian, and Latin American and Native American cultures.

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James Brown

Culture; American culture

(born 1928) Singer, songwriter, producer, musician, “Soul Brother No. 1” and “Mr Dynamite,” James Brown emerged as a distinctive force in popular music in 1956 with “Please, Please, Please” backed by ...

Anne Sexton

Culture; American culture

(1928 – 1974) Poet. Her deeply troubled life was shadowed by bouts of mental illness, addiction and preoccupations with death and suicide. These added power and terror to her oftenconfessional poetry ...

Grace Kelly

Culture; American culture

(1928 – 1982) American princess. Kelly born into a wealthy Irish Catholic Philadelphia family passed through a striking albeit brief screen career (1951–6) into legend. Her roles sometimes played off ...

Andy Warhol

Culture; American culture

(1928 – 1987) Ensconced during the 1960s in the subcultural scene of his New York studio, “The Factory” Andy Warhol transposed and transcended the defining ethos of his industrial Pittsburgh origins. ...

Paule Marshall

Culture; American culture

(born 1929) African American novelist of Caribbean (Barbadian) ancestry who emerged onto the literary scene with her autobiographical novel Brown Girl, Brownstones (1959). Much of Marshall’s writing ...

Frank Gehry

Culture; American culture

(born 1929) Winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize (1989), Canadian-born Gehry is known for the sculptural elements in his designs, as well as his ability to relate buildings to a human scale. ...

Pentagon

Culture; American culture

The National Security Act of 1947, establishing the president’s overriding responsibility for both defense and foreign policy, created the Secretary of Defense, the Central Intelligence Agency and ...