Mini Test 3

Question 1

Spatial analysis emphasizes by

Answer 1

description (what, where, and when) and explanation (how and why)

Question 2

Map interpretation (3 steps)

Answer 2

1.) description of the map pattern (what/where)
2.) explanation of the map pattern (why/how)
3.) critical analysis of the map and data sets (how did it come about, what will happen in the future, what are limitations/problems associated with this data)

Question 3

Culture

Answer 3

specialized behavior patterns, understandings, and adaptations that summarize the way of life of a group of people

Question 4

Material Culture

Answer 4

Physical objects unique to a specific group of people. Clothing, art, flags, social media, etc.

Question 5

Nonmaterial culture

Answer 5

Attitudes, beliefs of culture. Includes taking off shoes to enter a mosque for Islams and preparing food in a certain way (Halal)

Question 6

Material and nonmaterial culture go hand in hand

Answer 6

Clothing
material: can be worn
nonmaterial: belief of appropriateness considering the context

Question 7

Folk Culture

Answer 7

Traditional items and practices in small, isolated, homogeneous groups in rural areas. Varies more across space than time.

Question 8

Popular Culture

Answer 8

Large, heterogeneous groups of people who share common possessions and habits despite differences in other characteristics. More developed countries with people who can afford things. More widespread. Varies more across time than space.

Question 9

Culture region

Answer 9

place where culture traits are dominant. Latin America

Question 10

Culture traits

Answer 10

smallest identifiers of a culture. Spanish in Latin America

Question 11

Folk culture hearth areas

Answer 11

rural, isolated, unknown, can’t be sourced. promotes uniqueness

Question 12

Popular culture hearth areas

Answer 12

more developed countries, urban areas, source can be traced to person, time, and place.

Question 13

Diffusion of folk culture

Answer 13

slow on small scale

Question 14

Folk Culture Landscapes

Answer 14

heavily rely on things in their physical environment to showcase differences. Rural and agricultural. Example- Clogs in Switzerland for wet and muddy ground

Question 15

Popular Culture Landscape

Answer 15

Food such as avocado toast
Clothing that reflects occupation, economy and style

Question 16

Consumption: Standardization of Food

Answer 16

In the U.S. you are never too far from a Mcdonalds and it would taste the same no matter where in the country you are.

Question 17

Innovation

Answer 17

Creation of new ideas like technology which creates change

Question 18

Hearth

Answer 18

origin of a particular culture. Finding the origin can help identify how a culture spreads outside of the hearth.

Question 19

Cultural Lag

Answer 19

A culture that may be unresponsive to changes around them. Example - Amish population are selective in what technology they use. Popular culture has cell phones but they don’t use them.

Question 20

Acculturation

Answer 20

More dominant culture comes in contact with a less dominant culture and absorbs the less dominant culture. Characteristics of the more dominant culture are adopted by the less dominant culture.

Question 21

The Lost Boys of Sudan

Answer 21

Confused about process food. Diversity, quality, preparedness.
Sense of community
Electricity

Question 22

Expansion Diffusion

Answer 22

When a cultural trait or idea spreads from one location to another without the movement of people themselves. Hearth outward

Question 23

Contagious Diffusion

Answer 23

Expansion diffusion. Once it has spread, it is hard to stop or limit it. Potential to grow at a rapid rate. Covid

Question 24

Hierarchical Diffusion

Answer 24

Expansion diffusion. Spread of a cultural trait from a dominant area to less significant area. Trickle down effect. Important decisions are made by higher ups in government and are spread to general population in lower ranks.

Question 25

Relocation Diffusion

Answer 25

Need people to move to occur. Group or person moves from hearth of cultural trait to outside of the hearth. Religion, missionaries.

Question 26

Spatial diffusion of music example

Answer 26

relocation to expose new populations

Question 27

Innovation of music example

Answer 27

a new music style, sound, instrument, etc.

Question 28

Spatial variation in music example

Answer 28

strong preferences for different genre’s depending on where you are located

Question 29

evolution of music style with place example

Answer 29

without the place of origin some genre’s would not be what they are today. Bluegrass

Question 30

Bill Monroe

Answer 30

Father of Bluegrass

Question 31

Bluegrass Unique Features

Answer 31

-string instruments (banjo, mandelin, fiddle, stand up string bass, flat top guitar)
-fast/high pitched sounds, non-electric
-this sound was not popular before bluegrass

Question 32

Bluegrass physical geography

Answer 32

-Bill Monro began making bluegrass music in KY
-Strong relation to place/place consciousness
-Reference things like mountains and other physical geography in lyrics and names

Question 33

Bluegrass Cultural Hearth

Answer 33

-Appalachia
-Bluegrass offshoot of country music

Question 34

Bluegrass Diffusion

Answer 34

-primarily through outdoor music festivals
-how bluegrass found its way to other parts of the country
-jam sessions at festivals attracted people

Question 35

The Blues

Answer 35

-During Atlantic slave trade slaves brought over from Africa their culture to music. Relocation diffusion
-Brought to American south and blended with cajun/creole music and local Irish folk music

Question 36

The Blues Cultural Hearth

Answer 36

-Mississippi Delta (fertile cotton growing region)

Question 37

Precursor to the Blues (3)

Answer 37

-The Holler
-What slaves would sing to themselves while picking cotton
-Explains melancholy feelings and oppression associated with authentic blues

Question 38

Diffusion of Blues (3)

Answer 38

-Spread through local lounges and shacks similar to divebars
-Hearth in MS and spread outward to states like TN, LA, and AK
-Spread along communication routes like the Mississippi River because slaves followed these routes to freedom in the north

Question 39

Classic Blues

Answer 39

Mississippi Delta, melancholy, authentic, more accessible

Question 40

Urban Blues

Answer 40

Piano, Chicago, played in more fancy settings, less accessible, associated with more wealthy

Question 41

R & B

Answer 41

morphed from Urban Blues

Question 42

Rock and Roll Cultural Hearth

Answer 42

Cleveland
DJ Allen realized people were listening to “Race Record” so he began playing them on his radio station

Question 43

Reactions to the spread of Rock and Roll

Answer 43

-worried teenage mothers: Elvis swaying hips/dancing
-some radio stations banned it
-schools banned dances associated with Rock and Roll

Question 44

Southern vs Northern Rock and Roll

Answer 44

-Northern: Authentic, tied to Cleveland
-Southern: Disney like, cleaner rep. Dick Clark’s American Bandstand: white people rock and roll in Philly

Question 45

British Invasion for R & B

Answer 45

-R & B music produced by black artists like Muddy Waters did not have widespread appeal until white British groups like Rolling Stones covered the,

Question 46

Jazz Music Hearth

Answer 46

-New Orleans
-Mixed with local creole music

Question 47

Jazz Music Diffusion

Answer 47

-Reverse Hierarchical diffusion
-New Orleans to Chicago
-Diffused this way because it was during a time when Blacks were moving away from New Orleans, there were closer connections between the south and the midwest rather than the south and the north because of communication corridors like the MS river, and Chicago was seen as more racially tolerant

Question 48

Place Lyricism-Identity and Symbolism

Answer 48

-Toponyms
-Politics
-Representation of Place