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Americana

Americana refers to artifacts of American culture. A few examples include:

• Baseball
• Apple Pie
• Meeting the Parents

In music, Americana is a loose subset of American roots music, that is perhaps best defined as "classic American music" -- ranging in style from patriotic songs like the "Star Spangled Banner," gospel, bluegrass, and well known children's songs like "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" and "John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt".

The term Americana may refer also to any of the following:

• Americana - an album released by The Offspring on November 10, 1998.
• Americana, São Paulo - a city in São Paulo state, Brazil.

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