Americana vs Ukrainica - What's the difference?
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All things peculiar to the United States' culture and people, anything that is a symbol of American life.
(music) 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.
(Slavistics) Literature about Ukraine or Ukrainians, especially about Ukrainian culture, language, or literature.
* 1944 , The Ukrainian Quarterly , v 1, Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, p 89:
* 1957 , Books Abroad , v 31, University of Oklahoma, p 439:
* 1978 , James Howard Fraser ed., Society & Children's Literature , D.R. Godine, p 89:
* 2001 , David H. Stam ed., International Dictionary of Library Dictionaries , v 2, Taylor & Francis, p 593:
As nouns the difference between americana and ukrainica
is that americana is all things peculiar to the United States' culture and people, anything that is a symbol of American life while Ukrainica is literature about Ukraine or Ukrainians, especially about Ukrainian culture, language, or literature.americana
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(wikipedia Americana)Noun
(en-plural noun)Synonyms
* (musical genre) alternative country, alt-countryukrainica
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Alternative forms
* Ucrainica * ukrainicaNoun
(-)- Ukrainica in American Periodicals [section title]
- Yaroslav Rudnyc’kyj, head of the Department of Slavic Studies at the University of Manitoba, came to the United States in mid-year of 1956 to make a study of the Ukrainian holdings at the Library of Congress and to organize an exhibit of rare Ukrainica in that institution.
- The central children's room of the New York Public Library has as well a sampling of that Ukrainica published in New York City.
- The following specialized divisions were created: periodicals, Ukrainica , manuscripts, old printed books, Oriental, cartography, and ephemera (advertisements, placards).