Associations to the word «Americana»

Wiktionary

AMERICANA, noun. All things peculiar to the United States' culture and people, anything that is a symbol of American life.
AMERICANA, noun. (music) 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.

Dictionary definition

AMERICANA, noun. Any artifact (such as books or furniture or art) that is distinctive of America.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin