noun اسم

Americana meaning in urdu

امریکنا

  • Pronunciation

    /əˌmɛɹɪˈkænə/

  • Definition

    any artifact (such as books or furniture or art) that is distinctive of America

    کوئی بھی نمونہ (جیسے کتابیں یا فرنیچر یا آرٹ) جو امریکہ کا مخصوص ہے۔

noun اسم

Americana meaning in urdu

امریکنا

  • Definitions

    1. All things peculiar to the United States' culture and people, anything that is a symbol of American life.

    ریاستہائے متحدہ کی ثقافت اور لوگوں کے لیے مخصوص تمام چیزیں، ہر وہ چیز جو امریکی زندگی کی علامت ہو۔

  • Examples:
    1. Recycling Americana through predigested pop culture makes Monster Trucks seem indebted to Amblin movies of the ’80s, by way of the boy-and-his-car riff on those same movies Michael Bay half-assedly performed in the first Transformers.

    2. The Clovis Limit, her shop in Portobello Road, dealt exclusively in Americana.

    3. Today Coke exists as nostalgic brand, harking back to the day when the drink enjoyed its peak iconic stature. Coke now stands for 1950s Americana.

  • 2. An amalgam of roots musics formed by the confluence of the shared and varied traditions that make up the American musical ethos; specifically those sounds that are merged from folk, country, blues, rhythm and blues, rock and roll and other external influential styles.

    مشترکہ اور متنوع روایات کے سنگم سے تشکیل شدہ جڑوں کی موسیقی کا ایک مجموعہ جو امریکی میوزیکل اخلاقیات کو تشکیل دیتا ہے۔ خاص طور پر وہ آوازیں جو لوک، کنٹری، بلیوز، تال اور بلیوز، راک اینڈ رول اور دیگر بیرونی بااثر انداز سے ضم ہیں۔

  • Examples:
    1. The music that became Americana crossed racial lines very early, becoming one of the major integrating forces in America. The chapter shows how artists such as Buddy Holly and the Everly Brothers were creating and playing Americana long before we had a name for what they were doing.