1. FOLK & POPULAR CULTURE Chapter 4

2. WHAT ARE THE FIVE MOST COMMON THINGS YOU EAT? What are the five weirdest things you eaten? What makes them weird?

3. Would You Eat? 1) pig 2) raw fish 3) eel 4) alligator 5) tree grubs 6) cow brain 7) cow stomach 8) duck 9) snail 10) ants 11) turtle 12) jellyfish 13) scorpion 14) frog 15) snake 16) raw chicken 17) raw horse meat 18) pork blood 19) puppy 20) human toe nails

4. Culture Is the body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people. It combines three things: 1) values, 2)material artifacts, and 3) political institutions

5. Material Culture Comes from the survival activities of everyone’s daily life

6. Should welfare include the following? Clean water? Medicine? Food? Clothes? Home? Computer? Transportation? Plastic surgery?

7. Arts & Entertainment What makes art meaningful to a cultural group? Who decides what is meaningful for the whole group? What kind of art would you say best represents what is meaningful to American society? Music, visual art, plays, theater

8. Recreation What makes recreation meaningful to a cultural group? What kind of recreation would you say best represents what is leisurely to American society? Sports, Art, Philosophy, Eating

9. Individual vs the Group Habit is a repetitive act that a particular individual performs. What are some of your habits concerning 1) what you wear 2) recreation 3) eat/ drink 4) behavior-wise Custom is a repetitive act of a group, performed to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group? (widely adopted habits by a group) What are some customs of Americans? When you greet someone? When you eat with your hands? When you eat with a fork? When you have to relieve yourself?

10. Folk Culture: is traditionally practiced primarily by small, homogeneous groups living in isolated rural areas. (small scale)

11. Popular Culture is found in large, heterogeneous societies that share certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics. (Large scale) How does it work? Based on rapid simultaneous global connections through communications systems, transportation networks, and other frequent changes in popular customs.

12. Geographers want to know WHERE folk and popular cultures are located in SPACE DIFFUSION ORIGIN INTEGRATION

13. Built Environments Relation between material culture & physical environment

14. Globalization is becoming more dominant, threatening the survival of unique folk cultures.

15. WHERE DO FOLK AND POPULAR CULTURES ORIGINATE AND DIFFUSE C4K1

16. Objectives Origin of Folk and Popular Cultures Diffusion of Folk and Popular Cultures

17. Origin of Folk & Popular Cultures Unknown origins/ dates of folk cultures, whereas pop culture is product of MDCs. Why? Industrial technology & leisure time. (agricultural to service/ manufacturing society)

18. Origin of Folk Music Convey information on daily life, life cycles, natural phenomenon Anonymous, orally transmitted, later generations modify

19. 1894 I once did know a girl named Grace– I'm wukkin' on de levee; She done brung me to dis sad disgrace levee. I been wukkin' on de railroad All de livelong day, I been wukkin' on de railroad Ter pass de time away. Doan' yuh hyah de whistle blowin'? Ris up, so uhly in de mawn; Doan' yuh hyah de cap'n shouin', "Dinah, blow yo' hawn?" Sing a song o' the city; Roll dat cotton bale; Niggah aint half so happy As when he's out o' jail Norfolk foh its oystahshells, Boston foh its beans, Chahleston foh its rice an' cawn, But foh niggahs New Awleens.

20. 1927

21. Origin of Popular Music Written for specifically to be sold to large numbers of people. Highly technical… can’t be replicated (copyright). Origin: 1900, NYC, provide music for variety shows. Armed Forces Radio: Diffusion of Pop music

22. How did Hip Hop become Pop? Originated as inner-city folk music in the 1970… NYC. What happened to the folk? How do you take a folk music and make it commercial? The same way you can make Jesus’s birthday and make it Christmas Season

23. COMMERCIALLY DEPENDENT 1) REPACKAGE IT SO PEOPLE BUY IT… 2) MAKE IT A PLEASURABLE EXPERIENCE SO THEY GET HOOKED… 3) THEN FEED THEM NEW VERSIONS WHENEVER POSSIBLE SO THEY WILL ALWAYS BE A PAYING CUSTOMER

24. HIP HOP BEYOND THE BEATS & RHYMES Coming to Portable 33

25. Diffusion of Folk and Popular Cultures PC nodes of rapid diffusion 1) Hollywood for film 2) Madison Ave for advertising Folk Culture diffuses primarily through migration.

26. Case Study: Amish Who: Jakob Ammann 1600 Swiss Mennonite Bishop What: conservative Christians who don’t adopt modern ways. When: 1600 Where: Europe to Pennsylvania to Kentucky Why: religious freedom and cheap land

27. Sports: Hierarchical Diffusion Soccer: obscure origin: Kick the Dane’s head Globalization of Soccer: work recreation to main event 1863: Assoc-iation to Soccer Diffused through British Empire and Industrialization American Baseball has similar story. Why didn’t American football have the same story?

28. THE END

29. MEET ATHROPOLOGIST WADE DAVIS

30. WE promote diversity in Globalization while killing it in our indigenous communities. The disappearance of local folk customs reduces local diversity in the world and culture expression that arises from it.

31. Folk customs along with language, religion, and ethnicity that took thousands of years to develop are experiencing a form of genocide.