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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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basketball
Culture; American culture
Basketball is a monumental presence in the shrinking global community of the early twenty-first century. On the strength of unprecedented commercial success in the 1980s and 1990s, basketball has ...
film criticism/theory
Culture; American culture
Before James Agee’s tenure as film critic for The Nation and Time from 1941–8, American film criticism was rarely taken seriously. Agee’s incisive reviews paved the way for the most significant ...
party machines
Culture; American culture
Before the turn of the century strong political parties were a prominent feature of American cities. These party machines, as they were called, recruited citizens, especially new immigrants, to vote ...
Washington press corps
Culture; American culture
Beginning in the 1960s, the relationship between the American press and elected officials in Washington, DC changed from informal gatherings to ceremonious, and often contentious, events. The shift ...
addiction
Culture; American culture
Behavior associated with a dependence on either a substance or activity that is harmful when used to excess. When addicted, the user is either unable or unwilling to stop his or her behavior. In the ...
women’s liberation
Culture; American culture
Betty Friedan inspired this political and cultural movement for women’s rights by writing The Feminine Mystique in 1963. Supporters, calling themselves “feminists,” borrowed ideas from the Civil ...
girl groups
Culture; American culture
Between 1960 and 1964, a new trend developed within the nascent US popular music industry: groups of girls, some as young as thirteen, singing together in a vocal harmonic style that had its roots in ...
