What is American Culture?

A project in which a concert violinist travels to each state for one week, asking the question "What is American culture?", has concluded 50 weeks after it began on January 3. During this presidential election year, Cultures in Harmony (CiH), a nonprofit promoting cultural understanding through music, solicited answers to the question posed by the project in order to celebrate and explore the many ways it is possible to define American culture.

CiH founder William Harvey traveled to every state for one week, driving 26,904 miles to the 48 contiguous states and flying to Alaska and Hawaii. Answers to the question the project poses are available on social media via the hashtag #americancultureis. The hashtag also identifies pictures of the project on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. The CiH website has an interactive map that links to all the interviews, videos, essays, photos, and artistic collaborations generated as part of the project.