1. Folk and Popular Culture Where are leisure activities distributed?
Chapter 4 – Key Issue 1 (Music & Sports)

2. Culture… Remember back to Unit 1… What is Culture?
A lot can be determined about a peoples through their material traits, customary beliefs, and social forms.
The food we consume, clothes we wear, shelters we live in, music we listen to, and leisure activities we participate in can tell us a lot
Material Culture – Anything that can be seen
Non-material culture – the intangible (language, religion, philosophy, superstition, etc.)

3. The Cultural Landscape
The interactions of a group in relation to their own cultural practices as well as to the values of a society as reflected through artifacts and architecture.
Geographer Carl Sauer coined the term

4. Culture influences our behavior…
Habit is a repetitive act performed by an individual.
Custom is a repetitive act performed by a group.
Taboo is a forbidden or restricted social action
Is this a custom?

5. What is Folk Culture? Anonymous and potentially multiple hearths
Hearths are the center of a cultural innovation.
Unknown or questionable dates and originators
Small Scale and Slow Diffusion from one location to another.
Diffusion is the way in which culture spreads
Folk Culture moves through relocation diffusion.

6. Folk Culture – Sports & Leisure
Bags & Ladder Golf, Hurling, Australian Rules Football, Bull Fighting, Sepak Takraw, Team Handball

7. The Distribution of Folk Culture
Why is there such distinctly different folk culture in such a close proximity?

8. What is Pop Culture? Product of a developed countries
Origin can be traced to a specific person, place, or corporation
Diffusion is rapid and extensive, and often uses modern communication tools.
Pop Culture moves through hierarchical diffusion.
Hierarchical Diffusion is the spread from larger places to smaller places

9. Can things transition from folk to popular?
The origin of futbol is hotly contested, it is accepted that at one time it was an English folk sport from 11th Century-19th Century
Is futbol (soccer) popular culture?
(Green is 1st Sport, Red is 2nd Sport, Blue is Tertiary Sport

10. Popular Culture – Sports & Leisure

11. Can “Popular” be folk?

12. Folk Music Diffuses with individuals as the migrate
Though songs modify over time the style and themes are left intact.
Often utilize instruments that are specific to a culture or region
Folk Music
Armenian, Hindi, Korean, Canadian Lumberjack, Scottish, Taiko (Japanese)

13. Popular Music

14. Cultural Diffusion Hierarchical Diffusion Contagious Diffusion
From minority to majority
Contagious Diffusion
The rapid spread of ideas (Through the internet???)
Stimulus Diffusion
The application of a concept to another product
Relocation Diffusion
The spread of a cultural aspect through migration
The Diffusion of Music

15. Case Study – Pop Culture in the Arab World

16. Can you see culture? Culture can be seen… in the items we own,
in the leisure activities we take part in.
in the music we listen to,
in the clothes we wear,
In the food we eat,
In the ___________...

17. What Materials Do We Have?
Inspired by the Peter Menzel photographs

18. Bhutan

19. United States

20. South Africa

21. Iceland

22. What Materials Do We Have?
Inspired by the Peter Menzel photographs
Take a picture that incorporates both folk and pop culture items and materials that are distributed around your home. You are to bring these items to a centralized location and take a picture of your items with yourself in it.
Make sure to choose items such as family possessions, electronics, or other items that define your family and your culture.
it to
Denote in your if you do not want it to be shared with your classmates.

23. An Interview on Music & Culture
Read the Vivek Shah interview with Moby & Hans Zimmer then respond to the questions on a separate sheet of paper… Turn it into the tray