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Examples of Culture and Diffusion Target 4.2 4.7

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Examples of Culture and Diffusion

Target 4.2 4.7

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Terms/Concepts

• Examples of culture• Taboo

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Review Folk Culture

• Characteristics of folk culture– Anonymous hearth(s)– Anonymous sources (originators)– Unknown dates– Diffuses slowly and on a small scale• Chiefly through migration

– Little change

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Review Popular Culture

• Characteristics of popular culture– Found in large heterogeneous societies– Large territory as compared to folk

culture– Usually product of developed countries – Rapid diffusion facilitated by technology– Changes rapidly and frequently

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Folk Music

• Folk music– Composed anonymously and

transmitted orally – Contents derived from daily life– Travels via relocation diffusion

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Popular Music

• Popular music– Composed by specific individuals – Commercial purposes– Originated ~1800• Tin Pan Alley• Rise of recorded music

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Sport

• Soccer’s folk culture origins• Soccer as popular culture• Surviving folk sports– Cricket– Ice hockey– Baseball– Football– Lacrosse

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Housing / Architecture

• Folk culture traditions are reflected in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century US housing.

• Popular culture influences are seen in US housing built since 1940.

• Popular housing– Regional distinctiveness declines– Houses commercially constructed

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Food

• Food and place: – Environment contributes to the

characteristic of food• Food taboos– Taboo• A restriction on behavior imposed by

social custom• Biblical taboos

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Clothing

• Folk clothing traditions– Traditionally selected/designed to meet

agricultural practices and climatic conditions

– Diffusion via migration and technology has extended influence of some folk clothing

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Clothing

• Clothing of popular culture– Generally reflects occupation– Diffusion via communications

technology has extended influence of popular clothing

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Media

• Diffusion of TV– Developed in 1930s–WWII impeded diffusion

• Diffusion of the Internet–More rapid diffusion than TV

• Diffusion of Facebook– Founded in 2004

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Art

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Landscapes

• Popular culture can make significant alterations to the environment.

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Folk vs. Popular

• Challenges to Folk Culture– Loss of traditional values– Imposition of popular culture through

diffusion of media• Challenges to popular culture– Uniformity: fast food– Uniformity: gas, food, and lodging– Diffusion in the global marketplace– Local cultures and globalization

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Terms/Concepts

• Examples of culture• Taboo