Culture
The San Joaquin Valley has been a major influence in American country music, particularly through the "Bakersfield sound". The Valley has been the home to many country music singers such as Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, Billy Mize, Red Simpson, The Maddox Brothers and Rose and the Sons of the San Joaquin. The Valley has also produced many famous poets such as Gary Soto, current California Poet Lureate Juan Felipe Herrera, David St. John and Burlee Vang.
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Famous quotes containing the word culture:
“Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage.”
—Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)
“... there are some who, believing that all is for the best in the best of possible worlds, and that to-morrow is necessarily better than to-day, may think that if culture is a good thing we shall infallibly be found to have more of it that we had a generation since; and that if we can be shown not to have more of it, it can be shown not to be worth seeking.”
—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)
“As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like the culture of flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning. They give themselves a last wash and brush-up, their ocellated eyes roll, and they fall down the curtains.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)