Folk And Popular Culture Flashcards
Pop culture foods
Staples
Hamburgers, pizzas, subs
Differences and social customs are related to
Cultural landscape
Folk foods
Why do they eat them
Natural properties
Cows give strength…
Culture combines3 things
Values
Material artifacts
Political institution
Culture and migration
People bring the culture (beliefs, objects, intuitions) when they migrate
Two parts of material culture
Material culture and culture
Material culture develops how
Derives from daily survival activities
Culture develops how
Leisure activities
Habits are
Repetitive acts that an individual performse
Custom
Repetitive acts of a group performed so much that it becomes a characteristic of the group
Folk cultures
Small homogenous groups in rural areas
Popular culture
Large heterogenous societies
Folk varies from
Place to place
Pop varies from
Time to time
Folk vs pop music
Folk- tells a story
Pop- individuals wrote to market and make money
Tin Pan Alley
New York
Music industry developed to provide songs for. Music halls and vaudeville
Home to song writers, publishers, arrangers
Hip hop hearth
South Bronx
Low income cities like queens and Harlem caught on
How does pop culture diffuse
Hierarchal
Rapidly and extensively through modern communications and transportation
Folk diffusion
Migration
Slow small scale
Amish
People who don’t use electricity and mechanical power
Amiss distribution
1600 Swiss guy starts the Amish
1700 migrated to other parts of Europe
1700 move to Pennsylvania
1800 Ohio Illinois Iowa Ontario because if mole land prices
Inter regional diffusion
Sports diffusion (pop)
Starts in England as a folk custom
1800 football starts or be pop
Recreation clubs found in Britain. Sports were taught in school
1863 word soccer emerges
Minimal traditional
One story
MOdest
Ranch house
One story
Long side parallel to street
Split level
Three level
Contemporary
Architect design houses
Shed
Geometric
Why is folk culture clustered?
Lack of interaction with uther groups
