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THE 
UNITED 
STATES 
Sandra Vega Carrero
“North America is a place where different 
identities mix and collide, and assemblage 
a multiplicity, constantly producing and 
reproducing new selves and transforming 
old ones” Bradbury, 1981 p. 20
Divisions in American life 
Class Ethnicity Gender Race
Divisions in American life 
Class Ethnicity Gender Race 
It is difficult to talk about a single and 
closed notion of identity and values
Historical Political 
Traditions 
The music in the early 
America 
Was created as people 
from 
Other countries 
immigrated to America
1500s
England
Immigrants from 
England 
England 
Colonists 
Religious persecution
Immigrants from 
England 
England 
Colonists 
Religious persecution 
Monarchism 
Establish a state 
governed by religious 
principles
Immigrants from 
England 
England 
Colonists 
Religious persecution 
King GOD
Immigrants from 
England 
England 
Colonists 
Adventure 
Restrictions of 
European 
Societies 
“Freedom”
First writers of early America 
Reflected their 
English 
backgrounds 
Subject was mostly religious
First writers of early America 
Poems and 
preparatory 
meditations before 
the Lord’s Supper
XVIII Century 
Benjamin Franklin Tomas Jefferson
XVIII Century 
Their perspectives changed
XVIII Century 
Natural World Spiritual World
XVIII Century 
Natural World Spiritual World 
Knowledge (5) Senses
XVIII Century 
Natural World Spiritual World 
Knowledge (5) Senses 
Social 
scientific 
Economic 
Political
XVIII Century 
Natural World Spiritual World 
Knowledge (5) Senses 
Social 
scientific 
Economic 
Political 
Religious
XVIII Century 
Natural World Spiritual World 
Knowledge (5) Senses 
Social 
scientific 
Economic 
Political 
New Culture in 
American life
XVIII Century 
Natural World Spiritual World 
Knowledge (5) Senses 
Social 
scientific 
Economic 
Political 
New Culture in 
American life 
Materialism
XIX Century 
Washington Irving
XIX Century 
Washington Irving 
Created short 
stories
XIX Century 
Washington Irving 
Created short 
stories 
Humorist 
Folklorist
XIX Century 
Washington Irving 
Created short 
stories 
Humorist 
Folklorist 
Entertain
XIX Century 
Washington Irving
XIX Century Transcendentalism 
Immanuel Kant
XIX Century Transcendentalism 
The mind isn’t a blank 
tablet or sheet of 
blank paper. 
KANT
XIX Century Transcendentalism 
The mind isn’t a blank 
tablet or sheet of 
blank paper. 
KANT
XIX Century Transcendentalism 
KANT 
The mind contains 
certain 
universally 
acknowledged 
truths, and from 
birth 
instinctively reads 
this truths rather 
than writing them.
XIX Century Transcendentalism 
Self - development 
INDIVIDUAL, not Society
XIX Century Transcendentalism 
Self - development 
“Humans could experience 
divinity directly through 
nature, a spiritual practice 
in which no mediation, such 
as through the churches, was 
needed” 
INDIVIDUAL, not Society
XIX Century Transcendentalism 
Auto - didactism 
Not Imitation or repetition

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