I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.
My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and R&B.
The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization.
The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.
I welcome a discussion on a long-term, pro-active approach to disaster relief for Americans. Until Congress arrives at a conclusion, however, we must continue to honor America's honorable tradition of helping Americans recover for natural catastrophe...
But the fact is, Mr. Chairman, for all the challenges the Postal Service of the 21st century faces, it still retains its traditional place as a key cog in how American businesses conduct their affairs and how Americans all across this land communicat...
Hating Wall Street is an American tradition that dates back even to the days when Thomas Jefferson cursed that money lover Alexander Hamilton. And for centuries, the complaints about it have largely stayed the same: 'It does nothing! It creates chaos...
Since Reagan there has been this tradition, which has become a cliche, of promising morning in America, this fake optimism, we're the best, the city on the hill. In fact the great American task is self-scrutiny.
One bipartisan policy tradition is to deny Americans the use of our own resources.
There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel.
The whole path of American music has been so much about the recognition of stylistic diversity, and the recognition of the importance of music which was from one of the vernacular traditions.
Mine is not a traditional music, but it comes from a tradition.
Dick Clark is an American icon. I am honored that he has entrusted me with such a role in this national tradition.
To compel the nation with challenge the traditional American doctrine of freedom of the seas, every man and every ship in the navy is solemnly pledged.
The American patriots of today continue the tradition of the long line of patriots before them, by helping to promote liberty and freedom around the world.
What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact.
Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.
The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.
Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.
The sitcom's traditional role has been to comfort the viewer who feels burdened by the unreality of American expectations.
I love the holidays on 'The Middle' because I feel like I'm getting that very traditional American holiday experience that I never had growing up.
