Pop Culture
This is large, incorporates heterogeneous populations, typically urban, and experiences quickly changing cultural triats.
What is pop culture?
This is small, incorporates homogeneous populations, is typically rural, and is cohesive in cultural traits.
What is folk culture?
The most popular sport in the world, it started out as a folk custom
What is soccer?
Urban areas and more developed countries
Where is popular culture based?
A repetitive act practiced by a group of people
What is a custom?
Popular culture is practiced by a ______ group of people.
What is heterogeneous (people across identities and across the world)?
This is type of music originated in the South Bronx in the late 1970's, and would tell the story of growing up in low-income neighborhoods
What is hip-hop music?
New England, Mid-Atlantic and the Lower Chesapeake
What are the three areas for U.S. folk houses in the Untied States?
This is the type of diffusion that helps popular culture reach the masses
What is contagious diffusion?
This is the area where an idea or cultural trait originates
What is a hearth?
These became a very big item in the Soviet Union in the 1980's, sometimes selling for $400 a pair!
What are jeans?
Folk culture is sustained through...
What is customs?
When cities look the same because of the diffusion of popular culture around the world
What is a uniform landscape?
The most important mechanism by which knowledge of popular culture such as sports, is rapidly diffused across the Earth.
What is television?
This is a repetitive act practiced by a single individual
What is a habit?
Examples of pop culture are...
What are music, dance, clothing, food, religious practices and aesthetic values?
Tibetan Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims and Southeast Asian animists live in this mountain range
What are the Himalayan Mountains?
Songwriters, music publishers, orchestrators and arrangers called this area of New York City home, which some consider the hearth of popular music
What is Tin Pan Alley?
Between 1995 and 2000, the usage of this rose from 9 percent to 44 percent of the population
What is the internet?
This is the most popular housing style in the U.S. since the late 1960's
What is neo-eclectic?
The loss of traditional values, the change in the traditional role of women, and Western control of the news media
What are ways that pop culture is threatening folk culture?
This is where folk food habits derive (come) from
What is the environment?
This is the region of the United States where pork rinds and grits are popular
What is the Southern region?
Some contributions to the spread of popular culture are...
What is industrialization, urbanization, rise of formal education, resultant increase in leisure time?
When the physical features of a location contributes to how food tastes (Key Issue 2)
What is terroir?