it does create more garbage than any other city. seven days a week, tons and tons of garbage are hauled out of the city by large trucks, some heading as far away as landfills in Virginia and incinerators in Indiana, in an impressive feat of logistics and ecological destruction.
if their sanitation workers go on strike for like a day, the real “cultural” production of NYC starts accumulating.
Exactly my thought too. It’s not. Los Angeles is generally considered the cultural capital of the US. Movies, TV, and Music. New York can probably claim theater, that’s it. Not sure how they compare for art and literature.
It hasn’t been since Tin Pan Alley. There’s only a brief period like say ~1880 to ~1930 where NYC was genuinely the cultural capital of the US. Before the civil war, the US was too divided to have a single cultural capital and NYC didn’t stand out as a cultural capital of the north. The 1930s was the golden age of Hollywood.
When NYC was the actual cultural capital of the US, a typical cultural export would be some vaudeville act by Yiddish-speaking performers or some super early silent film filmed by Edison. The dominant musical genre was ragtime.
What.
No?
While the South has outsized influence in politics, it is a simple undeniable fact that the majority of cultural products of the US are made in or centered around New York or Los Angeles, and that these two cities have a ridiculous influence on world culture.
I was also gunna say LA (for film, music, TV etc.) but defining culture as ‘ways of doing things’ (and not just artistic products) it’s hard to knock NYC from its post
I don’t think new york is even cultural capital of usa lmao
of course, it’s actually Hitlerville, Oregon
it does create more garbage than any other city. seven days a week, tons and tons of garbage are hauled out of the city by large trucks, some heading as far away as landfills in Virginia and incinerators in Indiana, in an impressive feat of logistics and ecological destruction.
if their sanitation workers go on strike for like a day, the real “cultural” production of NYC starts accumulating.
Exactly my thought too. It’s not. Los Angeles is generally considered the cultural capital of the US. Movies, TV, and Music. New York can probably claim theater, that’s it. Not sure how they compare for art and literature.
It hasn’t been since Tin Pan Alley. There’s only a brief period like say ~1880 to ~1930 where NYC was genuinely the cultural capital of the US. Before the civil war, the US was too divided to have a single cultural capital and NYC didn’t stand out as a cultural capital of the north. The 1930s was the golden age of Hollywood.
When NYC was the actual cultural capital of the US, a typical cultural export would be some vaudeville act by Yiddish-speaking performers or some super early silent film filmed by Edison. The dominant musical genre was ragtime.
I don’t know how you could possible come to that conclusion, it is very obviously the most important American city in basically every single respect
like it’s obviously texas/south, dunno what they are smoking
What. No? While the South has outsized influence in politics, it is a simple undeniable fact that the majority of cultural products of the US are made in or centered around New York or Los Angeles, and that these two cities have a ridiculous influence on world culture.
on the world maybe, inside usa tho, i dunno, isn’t usa in the country phase in music and tv shows?
how?
California is a state ,NYC is definitely the USA’s most well known city and also on of the biggest producers of cultural output
what would you say is the cultural capital of the USA ?
Los Angeles ?
to anyone outside the USA it looks like it is NYC
I am not American but california seems more important from here
I was also gunna say LA (for film, music, TV etc.) but defining culture as ‘ways of doing things’ (and not just artistic products) it’s hard to knock NYC from its post
I agree but California is a state not a city