Cultural
| Type | Symbol | Description | Year | Image | Source |
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| Beverage | Milk | 2005 | |||
| Bluegrass song | Blue Moon of Kentucky by Bill Monroe |
Kentucky native Bill Monroe wrote this song in 1947 and performed it soon thereafter. Elvis Presley sung the song when he auditioned for the Grand Ole Opry and later recorded it for his first single for Sun Records. | 1988 |
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| Dance | Clogging | Clogging in the southern U.S. has its roots from early settlers. English clogging, Irish Jigs, African-American buck dance and Cherokee dance. | 2006 | ||
| Language | English | Over 95% of the state's residents are able to speak English. | 1984 | — | |
| Music | Bluegrass music | But it wasn't called bluegrass back then. It was just called old time mountain hillbilly music. When they started doing the bluegrass festivals in 1965, everybody got together and wanted to know what to call the show, y'know. It was decided that since Bill was the oldest man, and was from the Bluegrass state of Kentucky and he had the Blue Grass Boys, it would be called 'bluegrass.' —Don Harrison, | 2007 | ||
| Musical instrument | Appalachian Dulcimer | A stringed instrument that appeared in the south in the early 19th century | 2001 | ||
| Silverware pattern | Old Kentucky blue grass, the Georgetown pattern | 1996 | — | ||
| Song | "My Old Kentucky Home" | The song describes life on a Kentucky plantation. | 1928 | ||
| Sports car | Chevrolet Corvette | Since 1981, the Chevrolet Corvette has been manufactured in Bowling Green. | 2010 |
Read more about this topic: List Of Kentucky State Symbols
Famous quotes containing the word cultural:
“The men who are messing up their lives, their families, and their world in their quest to feel man enough are not exercising true masculinity, but a grotesque exaggeration of what they think a man is. When we see men overdoing their masculinity, we can assume that they haven’t been raised by men, that they have taken cultural stereotypes literally, and that they are scared they aren’t being manly enough.”
—Frank Pittman (20th century)
“Hard times accounted in large part for the fact that the exposition was a financial disappointment in its first year, but Sally Rand and her fan dancers accomplished what applied science had failed to do, and the exposition closed in 1934 with a net profit, which was donated to participating cultural institutions, excluding Sally Rand.”
—For the State of Illinois, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“By Modernism I mean the positive rejection of the past and the blind belief in the process of change, in novelty for its own sake, in the idea that progress through time equates with cultural progress; in the cult of individuality, originality and self-expression.”
—Dan Cruickshank (b. 1949)