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:
“The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.”
—Midge Decter (b. 1927)
“As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.”
—Margaret Mead (1901–1978)
“... good and evil appear to be joined in every culture at the spine.”
—Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)