Chapter 4 Vocabulary

• Culture • Habit• Folk Culture• Popular Culture• Taboo

What does it mean?• Habit – a __________ act that a particular ___________

performs.• Custom – a repetitive act of a ________.• Collection of social customs = group’s _________

culture.• Folk Culture – generally practiced by a _______,

homogeneous groups living in isolated ________ areas.

• Popular Culture – found in l_______, heterogeneous societies; based on _______ connections.

• Folk Culture is more likely to vary from place to place at a given time, whereas popular culture is more likely to vary from time to time at a given place.

Origin of Folk Music

• Folk songs tell a _______ or convey information.

• May have multiple origins owing to non-communication among groups in different places.

• Within the Upper South, George Carney identified four major hearths of country music during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Title: Origin of country music.

Caption:Country music in the United States has four major hearths, or regions of origin. These include southern Appalachia, central Tennessee and Kentucky, the Ozark Plateau and Ouachita mountains of western Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma, and north-central Texas.

Keywords: folk culture, folk music, country music, United States

Origin of Popular Music

• Written for the purpose of being sold to a large number of people.

• Originated in 1900 to provide songs for music halls and vaudeville, a music industry was developed in NY, which became known as Tin Pan Alley.

• Diffusion began during _______, when the AFRN broadcast music to soldiers.

• ______ becomes international language for popular music.

Hip Hop

• Also originated in NY.

• Tin Pan Alley = Manhattan Office Bldgs.

• Hip Hop = 1970s in South Bronx

• Hip Hop = relationship b/w globalization and local diversity.

Tin Pan Alley.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, most writers and publishers of popular music were clustered in New York City in a few buildings along 28th Street between Fifth Avenue and Broadway, which became known as Tin Pan Alley. Tin Pan Alley relocated north to 32nd Street and Broadway and then along Broadway between 42nd and 50th streets. Tin Pan Alley is no longer a node of popular music, but performing arts are still clustered in New York City. The Theater District, near 45th Street and Broadway, contains the country's largest concentration of theaters featuring live plays and shows. Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, a place for music and theater productions, is located near 63rd Street and Broadway.

Diffusion of Cultures

• Spread of popular culture typically follows the process of ___________ diffusion from hearths to _______ of innovations.

• Example: Devil Wears Prada

• Folk Culture is transmitted primarily through migration; relocation diffusion.

The Amish

Title: Amish settlements are distributed throughout the northeastern United States.

Caption:According to William Crowley, who documented this distribution, the number of church districts within a settlement indicates the relative

number of Amish in the community.

Keywords: folk culture, religions, United States, Amish

Sports

• Organized sports provide examples of how popular culture is diffused.

• Originated as isolated folk customs and were diffused like other folk culture, through the migration of individuals.

• Contemporary diffusion of organized sports, however, displays the characteristics of popular culture.