Americana (disambiguation)
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Americana
refers to artifacts of the culture of the United States.
Americana may refer also to:
Americana
Americana refers to artifacts, or a collection of artifacts, related to the history, geography, folklore and cultural heritage of the United States. Many kinds of material fall within the definition of Americana: paintings, prints and drawings; license plates or entire vehicles, household objects,...
refers to artifacts of the culture of the United States.
Americana may refer also to:
Music
- Americana (music)Americana (music)Americana is an amalgam of roots musics formed by the confluence of the shared and varied traditions that make up the American musical ethos; specifically those sounds that are merged from folk, country, blues, rhythm and blues, rock and roll and other external influential styles...
, a loose subset of American folk music - Americana (The Offspring album), 1998
- Americana (The Offspring song), 1998
- Americana (Roch Voisine album)Americana (Roch Voisine album)Americana is a 2008 album by Canadian singer Roch Voisine. Many of the tracks were recorded in Nashville, Tennessee.He followed that in 2009 with the album Americana II.-Track listing:Bonus bilingual English / French version tracks marked with [*]...
, 2008 - Americana II (Roch Voisine album)Americana II (Roch Voisine album)Americana II is a 2009 album by Canadian singer Roch Voisine. It was a follow-up of his successful Americana album in 2008. Many of the tracks were recorded in Nashville, Tennessee.-Track listing:...
, 2009 - Americana IIIAmericana IIIAmericana III is a 2010 album by Canadian singer Roch Voisine. It was a follow-up of his successful Americana album in 2008 and Americana II album in 2009...
, a 2010 album by Canadian singer Roch Voisine - "Americana" (song)Americana (song)"Americana" is a single by American country music artist Moe Bandy. It was released in January 1988 as the first single from his album No Regrets. The song peaked at number 8 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart.-Chart performance:...
, 1988 single by Moe Bandy - Americana (Starflyer 59 album)Americana (Starflyer 59 album)Americana is the third full-length album by Starflyer 59. It was the last of the band's three consecutive albums featuring monochromatic covers...
, 1997 - Americana (Michael Martin Murphey album)Americana (Michael Martin Murphey album)- Track listing :# "A Face in the Crowd" # "A Long Line of Love"# "Once Upon a Time"# "Out of Touch"# "Almost Free"# "Worlds Apart"# "No One Else But You"# "You're History"# "My Darling Wherever You Are"# "I'm Never Gonna Let You Go"...
Movies and Television
- Americana (TV series)Americana (TV series)Americana is a weekly game show which ran on NBC from December 8, 1947 to July 4, 1949. The series was originally hosted by literary critic John Mason Brown and produced by Martin Stone Productions with NBC Television. Each week's show was sponsored by Encyclopedia Americana...
, a quiz show that aired on NBC from 1947–1949 - Americana (The Offspring film)Americana (The Offspring film)Americana is a DVD released on December 14, 1999 by The Offspring. It contains videos of the band performing stunts along with other extreme sport professionals, and also several music performances by the band. Homemade music videos for the songs "Mota" and "Burn It Up" are also featured...
, a 1999 film by The Offspring - Americana (film)Americana (film)Americana is a 1983 American drama film starring, produced, edited and directed by David Carradine. The screenplay and story, written by Richard Carr, was based on a portion of the 1947 novel, The Perfect Round, by Henry Morton Robinson...
, released in 1983 starring David Carradine - Americana (1992 TV series)Americana (1992 TV series)Americana is a 1992 British documentary series which was presented by Jonathan Ross, co-written with Jack Barth. The three-part series explored American culture and was aired in the United Kingdom in December 1992. The titles of the three editions were "Fat", "Dumb" and "Rich"....
, a documentary series presented by Jonathan Ross
Literature
- Americana (magazine), a magazine published by the National Americana Society starting in 1906
- Americana (novel)Americana (novel)Americana is Don DeLillo's first novel, published in 1971. In 1989, DeLillo revised the text, excising several pages from the original.-Plot summary:The book is narrated by David Bell, a former television executive turned avant-garde filmmaker...
, a 1971 novel by Don DeLillo - Encyclopedia AmericanaEncyclopedia AmericanaEncyclopedia Americana is one of the largest general encyclopedias in the English language. Following the acquisition of Grolier in 2000, the encyclopedia has been produced by Scholastic....
Places
- Americana, São PauloAmericana, São PauloAmericana is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. As of 2006, its population was 203,845.The original settlement developed around the local railway station, founded in 1875, and the development of a cotton weaving factory in a nearby farm.After 1866, several Confederate...
, a city in Brazil - Americana ManhassetAmericana ManhassetAmericana Manhasset is a high-end, open-air shopping center located in Manhasset, New York. It is the largest and most well known shopping center in the area, sometimes commonly referred to as the "Miracle Mile"....
, a shopping center in Manhasset, New York - Americana/Lesourdesville Lake Amusement ParkAmericana/Lesourdesville Lake Amusement ParkAmericana/LeSourdsville Lake Amusement Park was an amusement park located in Monroe, Ohio, USA. This park is currently closed with no immediate plans to be reopened. When the park opened in 1922 it was named LeSourdesville Lake. The name was changed after the 1977 season to Americana Amusement...
, a defunct amusement park in Monroe, Ohio
Other
- Armlock#Americana, an armlock in grappling
- Americana Futebol, a football club based in Americana, São Paulo, Brazil
- Americana seriesAmericana seriesThe Americana series was a series of United States definitive postage stamps issued between 1975 and 1981. Denominations ranged from one cent to five dollars. It superseded the Prominent Americans series, and was in turn superseded by the Great Americans series and the Transportation coils...
, a series of United States definitive postage stamps issued between 1975 and 1981 - AmericanaAmericana (radio series)Americana was a British radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4 from spring 2009 to autumn 2011. It offered a "mix of discussion, interviews and features, with a focus on the voices of ordinary Americans" and was touted as the "successor for the late Alistair Cooke's Letter from...
, a series on BBC radio 4BBC Radio 4BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station, operated and owned by the BBC, that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is currently Gwyneth Williams, and the...
, reporting current affairs from the USA.
See also
- Americanum (disambiguation)
- Americanus (disambiguation)
- Americano (disambiguation)