1. Folk vs Popular Culture

2. AIM: How do we distinguish between pop and folk culture?
Do Now (11/18): What is culture? Come up with three examples of culture.
SWBAT compare and contrast folk and pop culture
SWBAT understand threats to folk culture
SWBAT describe the folk culture of the Amish and evaluate their ability to maintain their culture in the globalized world

3. Breaking down culture
Material Culture: objects or things made and used by group members
TANGIBLE things: art, clothing, musical instruments, buildings, etc
Nonmaterial culture: beliefs, values, etc

4. FoLK CULTURE passed on for generations
Practiced by small, homogeneous groups living in rural/isolated areas
Values tradition, community, and “the old way”
Strong Clan Structures
Associated with a sense of place
Generally self-sufficient

5. Folk culture examples:
Amish food and building techniques
Native American traditions and religions
Bluegrass music
Wearing the Sari in India
Native Hawaiian Culture
Folklore: oral stories passed down

7. Popular culture

8. What is popular culture?
Urban hearth
Mass produced
Relationships more numerous, but less personal
Weaker clan network
Secular institutions take place of maintaining order
Individualism stressed
Influence of mass media

10. AIM: How do folk cultures survive?
Do Now (11/19):BUBBLE SHEETS
classify the following as material and nonmaterial culture
men being perceived as more powerful than women
Democratic gov
Different types of
Houses

11. Syncretism The melding of a newer culture with a folk culture
How are the Amish an example of this?

13. Folk music VS Pop Music Generally transmitted orally
Focuses on daily activities
Created with a consumer purpose
Originated in early 1900s with vaudeville/ minstrel shows
Diffused rapidly with radio
English=international language
Folk Music
Pop Music

14. Minstrel/ Vaudeville shows
1830’s white men dressed in blackface to imitate/parody black music, dance, and culture
After the civil war black men participated in minstrel shows
Some of the first popular songs
Originated here like “Oh, Susannah”

15. Minstrel shows continued
Come listen all you galls and boys I'se jist from Tuckyhoe, I'm goin to sing a little song, My name is Jim Crow Fist on de heel tap, Den on the toe Ebry time I weel about I jump Jim Crow. Weel about and turn about En do jus so, And every time I weel about, I jump Jim Crow.

16. Folk Music: Translated version of Shosholaza, a South African folk song
Go forward from those mountains on this train from South Africa You are running away

17. Folk Music: Appalachian music
Borrows heavily from African-Americans
Hearth: Appalachian region
Country music originates here and becomes pop culture

18. K-Pop Band EXO

19. Key terms Cultural trait: single attribute of a culture
Bowing to show respect
Not always unique to one culture
Culture complex: combination of all culture traits
No two cultures have the same complex
Culture regions: regions that include places and people with similar cultures
Bounded by perception

20. Cultural convergence and divergence
Cultural convergence: two cultures adopt each other’s traits and become more alike
Cultural divergence: occurs when two cultures become increasingly different
Often occurs when one group moves away

21. Acculturation and assimilation
Acculturation: Occurs when two cultures come into contact with one another and the “weaker” of the two adopts traits from the more dominant culture
Assimilation: When the original traits of the weaker culture are completely replaced by more dominant culture
Sometimes acculturation leads to assimilation