FOLK VS POPULAR CULTURE

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

BREAKING DOWN CULTURE Material Culture: objects or things made

and used by group membersTANGIBLE things: art, clothing, musical

instruments, buildings, etc Nonmaterial culture: beliefs, values, etc

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

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

POPULAR CULTURE

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

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

SYNCRETISM The melding of a newer culture with a

folk culture How are the Amish an example of this?

FOLK MUSIC VS POP MUSIC

Folk Music 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

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”

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 CrowFist on de heel tap,

Den on the toeEbry 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.

FOLK MUSIC: TRANSLATED VERSION OF SHOSHOLAZA, A SOUTH AFRICAN FOLK SONG

Go forwardGo forwardfrom those mountainson this train from South AfricaGo forwardGo forwardYou are running awayYou are running awayfrom those mountainson this train from South Africa

FOLK MUSIC: APPALACHIAN MUSIC Borrows heavily from African-Americans Hearth: Appalachian region Country music originates here and

becomes pop culture

K-POP BAND EXO

KEY TERMS Cultural trait: single attribute of a

cultureBowing to show respectNot always unique to one culture

Culture complex: combination of all culture traitsNo two cultures have the same complex

Culture regions: regions that include places and people with similar culturesBounded by perception

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 differentOften occurs when one group moves away

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 cultureSometimes acculturation leads to

assimilation