The composers and lyricists spotlighted on each set, taken together, represent the greatest part of the cultural canon known as the Great American Songbook.

The series is partially a response to Kenneth Clark's Civilisation series, which represents a more traditionalist view of the Western artistic and cultural canon.

It is one of the ten films listed in Denmark's cultural canon by the Danish Ministry of Culture.

But at the Lone Star Roadhouse, the legendary New Rhythm and Blues Quartet was fashioning a different kind of cultural canon.

Mr. Lessig and the moderator, Steven Johnson, a contributing editor at Wired, made much of the fact that the discussion was taking place in a library, where much of the Western cultural canon is available free.

Long before the Information Age, man struggled to digest the mounds of words contained in his religious, cultural, and legal canons.

The latter film, 1981's Tree of Knowledge (Kundskabens træ), is one of ten films listed in Denmark's cultural canon by the Danish Ministry of Culture.

Benny's Bathtub received a special Bodil Award for animated film in 1971 and is one of the ten films chosen for Denmark's cultural canon by the Danish Ministry of Culture.

As a result of the above developments, the involvement of the Netherlands in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and slavery now forms part of the 50 windows of the Dutch historical and cultural canon.