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and Baseball Bat sitting atop an American Flag . These are all symbols of the Culture Of The United States .]] , a style of Restaurant that notably began in the United States.]] Americana refers to artifacts of the Culture Of The United States . Examples of this culture include Baseball , Apple Pie , the Diner , George Gershwin 's '' Rhapsody In Blue '', and American Folk Art , such as that of Norman Rockwell . In Music , Americana is a loose subset of American Folk Music , that is perhaps best defined as "classic American music"—ranging in style from roots-based Bluegrass to Alternative Country , Blues , Zydeco , and other native forms. Americana music is the focus of the bi-monthly U.S. magazine, '' No Depression ''. In the visual fine arts, Americana usually indicates a concern with the marginal aspects of historic American culture; carnivals, popular amusements such as side-shows, vernacular typography & signage, old horror movies in the 'haunted house' genre, the old West, and the backwoods cultures. It has increasingly veered off into a dark Gothic approach to Americana that was first visualised by U.S. writers such as Edgar Allan Poe and Ray Bradbury . EXTERNAL LINKS
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