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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Woodstock

Culture; American culture

Rock and art festival in 1969 in Bethel, New York, that became a symbol of baby-boom dreams. For three days in August, an unexpected crush of 500,000 plus participants adapted to freedom, music, ...

Bill Graham

Culture; American culture

Rock promoter Bill Graham turned the concert hall, the Fillmore, into a legendary site for San Francisco, CA rock and one of the key meeting places for the counterculture that proliferated in the ...

rodeos

Culture; American culture

Rodeos probably emerged from friendly competitions of work skills among cowboys. Although amateur and even junior competitions (through 4-H) highlight fairs throughout the West, rodeos constitute a ...

Romanian Americans

Culture; American culture

Romanian immigration to the US began in the 1880s. Following independence from the Ottoman empire, the government of King Carol I ruled with a heavy hand, and worsening economic conditions meant that ...

gypsies

Culture; American culture

Roughly 1 million gypsies live in the US. Although present since colonial days, immigration is difficult to follow because many arrived under other national quotas; gypsies only became an ...

alcohol

Culture; American culture

Rum, beer, whiskey and wine have flowed through American history from colonial trade and encounters with Native Americans to contemporary issues as diverse as health, criminality and connoisseurship. ...

salsa

Culture; American culture

Salsa’s origins are fluid, but scholars say the term started circulating in the 1960s to describe the new Latin musical styles New York City musicians created by fusing a “broad range of musical ...