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American Culture class - Year 3 summer semester

Suggested presentation topics:

1.    Visual arts (John Singer Sargent, Winsiow Homer, Georgia 0'Keeffe, Edward Hopper, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Roy Lichtenstein, Jackson Pollock, Norman Rockwell, Robert Mapplethorpe).

2.    Architecture & design (William F. Lamb, Ludwig Mieś van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, Frank

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3.    Theater (playwrights Eugene 0'Neill, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller); Musical theater (Leonard Bernstein, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Cole Porter, Ira & George Gershwin).

4.    ^Dance: African American dance, Swing dance, Modern dance (Isadora Duncan, Martha

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5.    Musie: classical (George Gershwin, Charles lves, Aaron Copland), folk (Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, Joni Mitchell), blues (Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, B.B. King), jazz (Scott Joplin, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davies), rock & pop.

6.    Cinema (Hollywood, independent cinema, cartoons).

7.    Broadcasting (radio & television, new media).

8.    Science and technology (Samuel Morse, Thomas Edison).

9.    American landmarks: Empire State Building, The Statuę of Liberty (New York), The Freedom Trail (Boston), lndependence Hall (Philadelphia), The National Mail, The Capitol Building, Lincoln Memoriał (Washington, D.C.), Mount Rushmore (South Dakota), The Alamo (San Antonio), Gateway Arch (St. Louis), Grand Canyon National Park (Arizona), Hoover Dam