>>17946552
>"Low" culture of America is the spontaneous and bottom up developments. Appalachia is an example I like to point to for how "low" American culture develops naturally. Bluegrass, barn-quilts, the working class food of the South ... Low American is infinitely better
I volunteer sometimes at a non-profit arts center in a pretty conservative town (basically a "large town") and it's an interesting cross-section of this stuff. Helped organize the town's annual arts festival this year. Quilting is big with older women. It's also a former school so there's a gym which is used as an events rental space, and various things happen there including shows from the regional amateur wrestling league. I don't have any interest in wrestling but it's interesting to watch like you're a sociologist or something.

>>17948365
>It is a loud, commercialized, and often contradictory culture, heavily exported through movies, music, and fast food.
I'd say another big thing in American culture is "pulp" culture which interacts with it. This is related to the country's culture being strongly influenced by commerical capitalism. People call it Marvel slop and I don't have any interest in those movies either, but I like Robert E. Howard and modern sci-fi pulp.

Another interesting thing is that pretty aggressive and confrontational art can get made in commercial forms. There was a lot of this in the 1990s in which pop art could become very introspective towards American society, which I think owed to particular conditions of the time, the emerging post-Cold War era when there was no longer something to define American culture against:
https://youtu.be/XdhKnAw6VZw

>>17950155
>Vegas was better when it was ran by the mob.
Joan Rivers had a joke that Vegas was better when the mob ran it because they kept the slobs out of the casinos and they knew how to treat a lady.