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Title: Human Geography By James Rubenstein


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Human Geography By James Rubenstein
  • Chapter 4
  • Key Issue 1
  • Where Do Folk and Popular Cultures Originate and
    Diffuse?

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Habit
  • A repetitive act that a particular individual
    performs.

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Custom
  • A repetitive act of a group, performed to the
    extent that it becomes characteristic of the
    group.

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A collection of social customs produces a groups
material culture.
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Two basic categories of material culture
  • Folk Culture
  • Popular Culture

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Folk Culture
  • Material culture traditionally practiced
    primarily by small, homogeneous groups living in
    isolated rural areas.

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Popular Culture
  • Material culture practiced by large,
    heterogeneous societies that share habits despite
    differences in personal characteristics, and most
    frequently originate in MDCs.

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Scale of Territory
  • Territory of Folk culture is typically much
    smaller than that of Popular culture.

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Through Globalization
  • popular culture is becoming more dominant,
    threatening the survival of unique folk cultures.

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Each social custom has a unique spatial
distribution.
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Two basic factors that explain spatial differences
  • The process of origin
  • The pattern of diffusion

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Origin of Folk and Popular Cultures
  • Folk culture originates from anonymous sources,
    at unknown dates, through unidentified
    originators.
  • Popular culture is most often a product of the
    economically more developed countries
  • - popular music
  • - fast food

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Popular culture is becoming more dominant,
threatening the survival of unique folk cultures,
which provide a unique identity to each group of
people who occupy a specific region on Earths
surface.
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Origin of Folk Music
  • Composed anonymously and transmitted orally.
  • Tell story or convey information about
  • - daily activities
  • - life-cycle events
  • - mysterious events

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Example of Folk Culture
  • In Vietnam, where most people are subsistence
    farmers, information about agricultural
    technology is conveyed through folk songs.

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Origin of Country Music
  • Folk customs may have multiple origins.
  • Geographer George Carney identified 4 major
    hearths of country music
  • - southern Appalachia
  • - Central Tennessee and Kentucky
  • - the Ozark and Ouachita uplands
  • - north-central Texas

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Origins of country music
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Origin of Popular Music
  • Written by specific individuals for the purpose
    of being sold to a large number of people.
  • Originated around 1900
  • Diffusion of American popular music worldwide
    began during World War II

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Tin Pan AlleyCluster of music writers and
publishers in New York City.
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Diffusion of Hip Hop
  • Originated in New York in late 1970s.
  • A return to a very local form of music
    expression.
  • Diffused rapidly around the world through
    globalization.

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Proximity of prominent hip hop performers.
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Diffusion of Folk and Popular Cultures
Popular culture diffuses rapidly and extensively
through the use of modern communications and
transportation.
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The Spread of Popular Culture
  • Follows the process of hierarchical diffusion
    from hearths or nodes of innovation.
  • - Hollywood (movies)
  • - Madison Avenue (advertising)

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Folk Culture
  • Is transmitted from one location to another.
  • - More slowly
  • - At a smaller scale
  • - Through relocation
    diffusion

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Relocation Diffusion
  • The spread of a characteristic through migration.

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The Amish
  • An example of Relocation Diffusion.
  • Distinctive clothing, farming, and religious
    practices.
  • Shun mechanical and electrical power.
  • Travel by horse and buggy and continue to use
    hand tools for farming.

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Amish Settlements
  • Number only about 70,000 in US.
  • Visible on the landscape in at least 17 states.

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Amish Settlements
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Amish History
  • Originated in Switzerland, France, and Germany
    in the 1600s.
  • Followers of Swiss Mennonite bishop Jakob
    Ammann.
  • Two waves of Amish families migrated to U.S.
  • - in early 1700s, to Pennsylvania.
  • - in early 1800s, to Ohio, Iowa, and Ontario.

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Amish Communities
  • Retain their traditional customs.
  • Relatively isolated from each other.
  • Diffusing slowly through interregional
    migration.
  • - in search of inexpensive farm land
  • - to escape influx of tourists

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Soccer
  • An example of hierarchical diffusion of Popular
    Culture.
  • In the latter 20th Century, the worlds most
    popular sport.
  • Began as a folk culture.

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Early History of Soccer
  • Earliest documented contest took place in 11th
    century England (called Kick the Danes head).
  • Between rival villages, with the winners kicking
    the ball into the center of the rival village.
  • Renamed football in 12th Century.
  • Banned by King Henry II at end of 12th Century.
  • Legalized in 1603 by King James I.

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From the World to Houston
PELE
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Globalization of Soccer
  • Began in 1800s.
  • Rules were standardized in 1863.
  • The Dutch were the first continental Europeans
    to play soccer in 1870s.
  • The British diffused the game throughout their
    empire.
  • Soccer was further diffused by radio and
    television.

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The Diffusion of Rugby
  • Originated in England in 1823, when football
    (soccer) player picked up the ball and ran with
    it.
  • Spread to the US in 1873, when Harvard
    representative successfully argued the adoption
    of rugby rules over soccer.
  • Later modified into American Style football.
  • Similar modification of Rugby rules were taken
    by Canadians, Australians, and the Irish.

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Some Other Preferred Popular Sports
  • Cricket is popular in Britain and former British
    Colonies.
  • Ice hockey prevails in Canada, Northern Europe,
    and Russia.
  • Forms of Martial Arts are popular in China.
  • Baseball in the US and Japan.

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Lacrosse
  • Known as bump hips began among the Iroquois
    Confederation of North America.

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GLOBALIZATION OF AN AMERICAN SPORT
BASKETBALL, Ranong Province, Thailand
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TAKRAM, sport in Thailand that is a combination
of soccer (no hands) volleyball (net)
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