Cattle/Popular culture
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As one of the longest-domesticated animals, cows and cattle have played a significant role within Western popular culture. Sometimes carrying the power of life-directing myth, and sometimes merely depicted so as to evoke a hearty belly laugh, they have been portrayed in art, nursery rhymes, language idioms, advertisements, and cartoons and comics since the early 1800s.
Cows in the myth of the American West
Literature
- The Cow Puncher by Robert J. C. Stead[1]
- Pete Cow Puncher: A Story of the Texas Plains by Joseph B. Ames
Nursery rhymes
- Hey Diddlle Diddle (The cow jumped over the moon)
Language idioms
- The fatted calf/kill the fatted calf
- Until the cows come home
- Cash cow
- How now brown cow?
- Holy cow
- Have a cow
- A sacred cow
- Cow-punch
- As awkward as a cow on roller skates
- Cowboy
- Cow poke
Film
- Hundreds of iconic and B-grade cowboy movies, see filmography and catalogues at cowboy and western (film)
- Edison's films of County Fairs
- Barnyard
- Cow and Chicken
Comics
- Civil War Era
- The Far Side
- London's Times
- The Man-Eating-Cow (Tick Comics)
Advertisements
- Ben and Jerry's
In 1983, Ben Cohen approached Vermont artist Woody Jackson about using Jackson's distinctive cow themed artwork as the hallmark of the fledgling Ben and Jerry's ice cream company.[1] The company has since grown to be a household name, operating around the world. The "Woody cow" remains a prominent part of the Ben and Jerry's brand.
- Cow Brand Baking Soda
- Milk Maids
- BMW
- Borden - Elsie the Cow
- Chik-fil-a - The "Eat More Chikin" cows
Music
- Early American Folk
- The Dead Milkmen (band)
- Pink Floyd, Atom Heart Mother
Other
- Cow tipping
- Furniture
- Moofia
- Postage stamps
- I Never Saw a Purple Cow
- Dropping the Cow (comedy troupe)[2]
- Clothing[3]
Notes
- ↑ Woody Jackson. The Ben and Jerry's Story. Electronic document, http://www.woodyjackson.com/bennjerry.html. <<== DEAD LINK/PAGE [http://www.webcitation.org/5PHKxwBoI Archived] June 1, 2007.