David Bowie's Influence On American Culture

David Jones or as many people know him, David Bowie was one of the most influential and talented artists. His death was a true tragedy and loss to not only American culture but also in the UK and even other places. David was influential to many different music genres and artists. Unfortunately, with his death, he is no longer able to actively influence music which is a major part of our culture. David also was very influential in the LGBTQ community seeing that he came out during a time that homosexuality was not accepted or even legal in most places. That is still a topic that is very much still discussed today, and he truly did influence the culture with this and numerous people. One could argue that him coming out and being so free with his sexuality made it more normal for others to do so. The tragic death of David Bowie caused loss to not only his friends, family, and fans, but also to our culture
David was able to influence not only one culture, but many. He was influential to the United States culture as well as the UK’s, and more. He is the biggest loss to our culture because he influenced one of the most important parts of our culture: music. Seeing that he did so much for so many different types of music and artist, his death is an incredible loss to our culture. He also in some ways helped the idea of fluidity in sexuality become more accepted and popularized during a time of homophobia. This is obviously still much discussed today, although recently gay marriage has become legal, David is no longer able to actively influence this part of our culture which is a loss. Overall, there were very many influential people lost in 2016, but David Bowie was a shining star that was gone way too