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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Martha Stewart

Culture; American culture

(born 1941) Doyenne of style for 1990s baby boomers. Stewart, a former caterer, offers multimedia guides to elegant home life—planting, ornamenting, arranging, colorcoordinating and adding extra ...

Paul Simon

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(born 1941) Enduring, popular songwriter/performer since the early 1960s. Simon combined with Queens, New York schoolmate, Art Garfunkel, as Simon and Garfunkel, gaining recognition with the 1965 hit ...

Joan Baez

Culture; American culture

(born 1941) Folksinger and activist whose crystalline voice has rung out against abuses of power and on behalf of social equality worldwide. Baez mingled song and protest from the 1950s onwards, ...

John Edgar Wideman

Culture; American culture

(born 1941) Novelist educated at the University of Pennsylvania; in 1963, only the second African American to receive a Rhodes Scholarship. Wideman returned to the Ivy League university to teach ...

Bob Dylan

Culture; American culture

(born 1941) Singer/songwriter, née Robert Zimmerman. Arguably the most influential individual in the development of modern rock and folk music. Although his music sold modestly and received limited ...

Robert Wilson

Culture; American culture

(born 1941) Trained in painting and architecture, Robert Wilson has become a pre-eminent theater artist whose visionary stagings of standard and original work has transformed both scenography and ...

Emmet Till

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(born 1941); d, 1955 Fourteen-year-old African American Chicagoan who visited his uncle in Mississippi for the summer of 1955. Unfamiliar with the racial code of the South, he spoke casually to a ...