3. Creating Culture
• Habit- a repetitive act of an individual
• Custom- a repetitive act of a group performed to
the extent that is becomes a characteristic of the
group
• Culture- entire collection of a groups customs.
4. FOLK FOLKS
• Practiced by small, homogenous
groups
• Live in rural, isolated areas
• Unknown hearths
• Multiple independent locations
5.
6. POP CULTURE
• Large heterogeneous
societies
• Share certain habits despite
differences in other personal
characteristics
7. FOLK MUSIC
• Tells a story
• Conveys information about
daily activities. (e.g.
farming, life cycle events)
• Vietnam folk songs teach
people about farming
8. FOLK MUSIC
• Country music started in Upper South
• Four major hearths:
1) Southern Appalachia
2) Central Tennessee and
Kentucky
3) The Ozark and Ouachita
uplands of western Arkansas
and eastern Oklahoma
4) Northern central Texas
9. POP MUSIC
• 1900
• Musical Halls in Europe
• Vaudeville in United States
• Tin Pan Alley in New York
• Written to be sold
10. DIFFUSION OF POP MUSIC
• Armed Forces Radio network
broadcast music to American
Soldiers and citizens of countries
that US soldiers were stationed
• How is pop music spread today?
11. DIFFUSION OF FOLK AND
POP CULTURE
Folk Pop
• Relocation diffusion- spread • Hierarchical diffusion- spread
through migration from hearths (e.g.
Hollywood)
• Diffuses rapidly and
• Folk culture is spread from
extensively through the use
one location to another slowly
of modern communication
and on a smaller scale
and transportation
12. THE AMISH
• Do not use mechanical or
electrical power
• Travel by horse and buggy
• Use hand tools for farming
• 250,784 and growing
13.
14. DIFFUSION OF POP CULTURE
• Kick the Dane’s Head
• Young boy imitated this game using
an inflated cow bladder
• Diffused through contact with
others.
• Introduced in Spain by English
engineers in 1893
• Spread through British empire.
15. DIFFUSION OF POP CULTURE
• Originated in North America
• Became popular in Japan
after World War II
• World Cup
• World Baseball Classic
16. LETS CONSIDER THIS…
• What has contributed to the
diffusion of pop culture?
• What limits the diffusion of folk
culture?
