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The traditions and
practices of the U. S. are included in the American culture. According to
Cristina De Rossi, a senior anthropologist at Barnet & Southgate Colleges
in London, "culture involves religion, cuisine, what we dress, how we
dress it up. Our vocabulary, marriage, song, and feelings are correct or incorrect.
How we consume food, welcome guests, act with family members, and a billion
other things" (opens in new tab). The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that
the United States has a populace of more than 332 million, making it the third
biggest nation in the world (opens in new tab). Every nine seconds, a kid is
born, and every eleven seconds, someone passes away.
Migrants mostly formed
the United States population from other nations and the Native Americans who
already resided on the land. Every 666 seconds, a new immigrant arrives in the
nation, based on the Census Data. The Oxford School claims that, as a result,
America is one of the nations with the most diversified cultures in the world
(opens in new tab). According to the Library of Congress, nearly every area of
the world has impacted American society. Most famously, the English conquered
the nation in the early 1600s (opens in new tab). The civilizations of Native
Americans, Latin Americans, Africans, and Asians have also influenced American
culture.
AMERICAN ART:
Throughout the late
18th and early 19th centuries, American painters largely produced realistic
landscapes and portraits or those turned to Europe for technical guidance. For
instance, John Singleton Copley was born in Boston. Yet, most of the iconic
portraits he is known for were created during the Rococo and Neoclassical
periods, influenced by British artists like Thomas Gainsborough.
The later 18th
century was when the United States was still a young country and distant from
the practice of artists learning a trade via apprenticeship before pursuing
fame and money as professionals. Obtaining a patron, Many artists profited from
the support of Grand Visitors eager to buy souvenirs of their travels. The
Thirteen Colonies lacked stately nobles or Roman temples: the Hudson River
School, and other portraitists with a distinctively American aesthetic,
including Winslow Homer. Later developments of the 19th century gave America
one of its earliest indigenous domestic movements.
MUSICAL THEATRES:
With the likes of
Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Loewe, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Leonard
Bernstein, George and Ira Gershwin, Kander and Ebb, and Stephen Sondheim among
its musical luminaries, the United States is both the birthplace and the
biggest exporter of contemporary musical theatre. The hub of American
commercial theatre, Broadway is one of the world's major theatrical districts.
The highest number of
male solo artists in the country are Billy Joel, Garth Brooks, Michael Jackson,
and Elvis Presley. The Eagles, Aerosmith, Metallica, and Van Halen are the
bands with the most records sold. 20th-century female musicians like Whitney
Houston and Madonna gained international fame.
AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE:
The United States has
a diversified regional architecture influenced by several outside factors.
Thus, it may be claimed that American architecture is eclectic. English and
Greco-Roman architecture has historically influenced American architecture. The
core idea of city American Skyscrapers from the 20th century are examples of
architecture as modernism. Domestic and residential architecture varies
depending on local preferences and environment, with rural and suburban
American architecture often being more conventional.
AMERICAN DRAMA
CULTURE:
Until Eugene O'Neill,
who is now widely regarded as the father of American drama, emerged in the
early 20th century, American theatre lacked a distinct dramatic personality.
O'Neill is the first playwright from the United States to have won the Nobel
Prize in Literature. He has won the Pulitzer Prize for drama four times. After
O'Neill, American drama matured and flourished throughout the first half of the
20th century with writers like Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Lillian
Hellman, William Inge, and Clifford Odets. After this creatively fruitful time,
American theatre made great aesthetic strides with Edward Albee's absurdist
forms in the 1960s.
AMERICAN SPORTS:
Colleges were urged to
emphasize intramural sports in the 1800s, notably track and field and American
football in the latter half of the century. In the 20th century, physical
education was included in the curricula of elementary schools. Among the main
team sports played in America, baseball is the oldest. From 1869 through the
1960s, professional baseball's popularity was unrivaled. Baseball is still
called "the national pastime" even though it is no longer the most
popular sport.
Major League Baseball
clubs play practically every day, unlike the professional levels of the other
prominent spectator sports in the United States. Each of the 30 clubs in Major
League Baseball plays 162 games throughout the league's regular season, which
runs from late March to early October. In October, the World Series and
playoffs conclude the current campaign. Professional baseball pulls most
players from a "minor league" system instead of collegiate athletics,
unlike most other major sports in the U.S.