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PRI's Studio 360 American Icons Series

Studio 360 American Icons: Harley Davidson, Georgia O'Keefe, Jimi Hendrix

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Jul 5, 2018 • 1 min read

It's not the fastest motorcycle or the fanciest, but to many Americans, a motorcycle is a Harley-Davidson. O’Keeffe painted cow and deer skulls floating over delicate abstract landscapes of the New Mexico desert. Hendrix’s performance of the national anthem at Woodstock hit like a shock wave; with its distortion and chaos, it sounded like a rupture in something sacred.

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