1. Do Now: Music! FOOD! Socializing!
Answer the following question in your notebook:
Which state is the hearth of bluegrass music?
Describe at least one folk food tradition.
3. What is the difference between greeting in the West and greeting in the East?

2. Highlights from Readings
Take notes on these highlights, pull outs and extra important details from the readings you have done on CULTURE thus far.

3. Defining Folk and popular Culture
Folk Culture: Traditionally practiced by a small, homogenous, rural group living in relative isolation
Popular Culture: Found in large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite personal differences

4. Folk Culture – rapidly changing and/or disappearing throughout much of the world.
Portuguese Fishing Boat
Guatemalan Market
Turkish Camel Market

5. Folk Culture Stable and close knit Usually a rural community
Tradition controls
Resistance to change
Buildings erected without architect or blueprint using locally available building materials
Anonymous origins, diffuses slowly through migration.
Clustered distributions: isolation/lack of interaction breed uniqueness and ties to physical environment.

6. Popular Culture
Differences from place to place uncommon, more likely differences at one place over time

7. Popular Culture
Housing: only small regional variations; trends over time
Food: franchises, cargo planes, superhighways and freezer trucks have eliminated much local variation
Limited variations in choice regionally, esp. with alcohol and snacks
Substantial variations by ethnicity
Clothing: Jeans and have become valuable status symbols in many regions including Asia and Russia despite longstanding folk traditions.

8. diffusion
The process of how culture spreads from one place to another FOLK CULTURE diffuses through migration POPULAR CULTURE diffuses through technology and cultural imperialism

9. Diffusion of Popular Culture
Effects on Landscape: breeds homogenous, “placeless” (Relph, 1976), landscape
Complex network of roads and highways
Commercial structures tend towards ‘boxes’
Dwellings may be suggestive of older folk traditions
Planned and Gated Communities more and more common
Disconnect with landscape: indoor swimming pools, green lawns in the desert

10. Diffusion of Popular Culture
Often Destroys Folk Culture – or preserves traditions as museum pieces or tourist gimmicks
Accelerated Resource Use through Accelerated Consumption:
Overconsumption of meat
Mineral extraction for technologies (i.e. cell phones)
Golf courses use water and destroy landscapes worldwide

11. “Little Boxes” Document based question
Listen to the folk song, “Little Boxes” by Malvina Reynolds
Then answer the following questions with your tablemates:
Which cultural process is the song “Little Boxes” commenting on?
Describe the author’s viewpoint on popular culture (including housing, education, leisure, etc.) Refer to examples from the lyrics.