local culture, popular culture & cultural landscape
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Local Culture, Popular Culture & Cultural Landscape
(Chapter 4)
AP Human Geography
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Folk (Local) v. Pop Culture• Culture: a group of people with common
– Belief systems– Norms – Values
Folk culture• Small• homogeneous • usually rural• static
Popular culture• Large• Heterogeneous• usually urban• changing culture
Folk Popular
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Teen Culture – Where does it come from?
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Youth Culture
• Consumption
• An authentic product or the creation of multinational corporations?
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"In much the same way that the British Empire tried to take over Africa and profit from its wealth, corporations look at [teens] like this massive empire they are colonizing, and their weapons are films, music, books, CDs, Internet access, clothing, amusement parks, sports teams." -Robert McChesney
Are "cool hunters" similar to colonial powers? Do they exploit teens or are they providing desired benefits and
services?
The Corporate Web
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Local Culture: a community tries to preserve unique experiences, customs & traits to distinguish them from others
Maasai woman
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Material Culture
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Nonmaterial Culture
BeliefsPracticesValuesAesthetics
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Popular Culture
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Net gross approx $15M Average movie ticket $0.19
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Popular culture can spread via hierarchical diffusion
Queen Rania of Jordan
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How are local cultures maintained?
Sometimes they’re not………. i.e. assimilation
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How are local cultures maintained?
Customs
Right hand only!
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How are local cultures maintained?
Avoid Cultural Appropriation
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Local cultures often are easier to maintain in rural areas
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When local traditional culture clashes dominant culture
Native American Whale Hunting
Native American use of peyote
FLDS & polygamy
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Lindsborg KANSAS!
Neolocalism: reinvigorating a unique local culture
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Hasidic Community, Williamsburg NY
Can a folk culture survive in an urban setting?
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The Local Culture in an urban setting
Chinatown, London, UK
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The Local Culture in an urban setting
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Commodification
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Bunratty, Ireland
An authentic experience?
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An authentic experience?
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The Venetian, Las Vegas
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Dubai, UAE
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How is popular culture diffused?
Time space compression limits distance decay for parts of the planet
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Sporting CultureThe old….
The new….
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The Reach of American Global Culture
The Backlash!
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Opposition to the Golden Arches“Malbouffe” or Bad Food
Jose Bove
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Slow Food Movement
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Farmer’s Markets
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PlacelessnessLoss of uniqueness of
cultural landscape
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Beijing
Hutongs High-rise
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Placelessness
Convergence of the cultural landscape
Architectural forms have diffused around
the world
Global businesses have distinctively mark distant landscapes
Borrowing of idealized landscapes
India
China
Mexico
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Poundbury, UKExperimental new integrated town using traditional architectural forms
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Glocalization
How people in a local place alter regional or global processes
• Craigslist
• MS word & en-US or en-GB or en-AU
• Wikipedia languages
• Fair trade
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Hyperlocalism