Folk and Popular Culture

Links we viewed: Popular Culture diminishes Folk Culture: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40DykbPa4Lc Thriller changes Pop culture music venue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIpiudEy7bQ First MTV video = Radio to tv: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8duyanEPRE Today trend: Video to internet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx5tSmOY_iM&list=PLAF304A3E83DA1030 Old Days Hucklebuck: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwxpqEIjOh8

Carl Sauer Studied how material expressions of culture show on landscape Two major questions: How does space, place and landscape shape culture? How does culture shape, space, place and landscape? (ask when thinking food, sport, housing or traditions)

Terms Habit: A repetitive act that an individual performs.            (ex: wearing a hat to class every day)   Custom: A repetitive act that an entire group performs. A custom characterizes a group.             (ex: Native American tribal ceremonies) Culture refers to a group's entire collection of customs. Mentifact: The ideas, beliefs and values of a culture.               (ex: religion)

Terms Artifact: Something man made that has relevance to a particular culture                (ex: tools)   Sociofact: The way in which people organize their society and relate to one another.                  (ex: customs) Taboo: The prohibition of the use or mention of something due to its nature.               (ex: food taboos- Muslims cannot eat pork, Hindus cannot eat cow)

Terms     Acculturation: adopting some or all of characteristics of another dominant culture (keep some of your original customs) Assimilation: adopting most of the characteristics of a dominant culture allowing for the disappearance of your customs   Syncretism: fusing old and new parts of culture together Ethnocentrism: believing one culture (usually one’s own) is superior and all other cultures must follow example

How does Popular Culture Change? Change over decades/through time (diversity is in time) versus Folk Culture changes over space (diversity is seen from one place to another) Madonna Pop: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yYeeRm9cmo or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThHz9wlBeLU or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djV11Xbc914&list=RD0ARiDmkfWLoo (A-Ha Take me on) Words: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYrdZz-xbxo MTV Launch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq1DfU2UWp8 Word of the year: http://fox8.com/2013/11/19/selfie-named-word-of-the-year-for-2013/ http://www.digtriad.com/video/2808856796001/1/Selfie-Theres-an-app-for-that--SocialEyes

Models Spread of Pop: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL6e9c2baD8 Distance Decay-  Typically, the farther away one group is from another, the less likely the two groups are to interact. Contact diminishes with increasing distance and eventually disappears. Spread of Pop: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL6e9c2baD8

Popular Housing MDCs used cut lumber , shingles, stucco, vinyl, and aluminum blueprint and architect used Styles did not vary from place to place Wide Distribution Small regional variations

Diffusion of Housing Types Many housing types diffused due to the growing popularity of different housing.   For example, in the 1940s and 50s the minimal traditional house was popular to young families and veterans from WW2.  Also, the neo-colonial house of the 1950s was brought over from Britain, which would be relocation diffusion.