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Local Culture, Popular Culture & Cultural Landscapes

Local Culture, Popular Culture & Cultural Landscapes. Chapter 4. Key Question :. WHAT ARE LOCAL AND POPULAR CULTURES?. LOCAL CULTURE :. A group of people in a particular place who are united as a collective or a community. What makes them unique?. Share experiences, customs, and traits.

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Local Culture, Popular Culture & Cultural Landscapes

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  1. Local Culture, Popular Culture & Cultural Landscapes Chapter 4

  2. Key Question: WHAT ARE LOCAL AND POPULAR CULTURES?

  3. LOCAL CULTURE: A group of people in a particular place who are united as a collective or a community. What makes them unique? • Share experiences, customs, and traits • Work to preserve those traits and customs (want to keep their “uniqueness” • & to distinguish themselves from others).

  4. Hutterite Colonies in North America Are the Hutterites an example of a local culture?

  5. WHY ARE HUTTERITE COLONIES LOCATED WHERE THEY ARE?

  6. POPULAR CULTURE: • A wide-ranging group of heterogeneous people, who stretch across identities and across the world. - They take into their lives outside cultural traits from other groups: - Music & Dance* - Clothing & Food Preference* *These things change often & are everywhere on the cultural landscape.

  7. How Do Cultural Traits From Local Cultures Become Part Of Popular Culture? Madonna wearing a red string Kabbalah bracelet.

  8. HOW DO CULTURAL TRAITS DIFFUSE? CULTURAL HEARTH: - Point Of Origin Of A Cultural Trait: • Contagious diffusion • Hierarchical • diffusion

  9. EMPLOYING THE CONCEPT OF HIERARCHICAL DIFFUSION, THINK ABOUT HOW YOU FIRST BECAME A “KNOWER” OF YOUR FAVORITE KIND OF MUSIC – WHERE IS ITS HEARTH? and HOW DID IT REACH YOU?

  10. Key Question: How are Local Cultures Sustained?

  11. LOCAL CULTURES ARE SUSTAINED BY MAINTAINING CUSTOMS. CUSTOM: A Practice That A Group Of People Routinely Follows.

  12. MATERIAL AND NONMATERIAL CULTURE MATERIAL CULTURE: “Stuff” The things a group of people construct, such as art, houses, clothing, sports, dance, and food. NONMATERIAL CULTURE: “Intangibles” The beliefs,practices, aesthetics, and values of a group of people.

  13. “LittleSweden” USA (Lindsborg,Kansas) Is the Swedish Dala horse part of material or nonmaterial culture?

  14. IN AN AGE OF GLOBALIZATION, WHERE POPULAR CULTURE DIFFUSES QUICKLY, WHAT DO YOU THINK LOCAL CULTURES DO TO MAINTAIN THEIR CUSTOMS?

  15. LOCAL CULTURES OFTEN HAVE TWO GOALS: • 1. Keeping other cultures out. • (ie. Create a boundary around itself) • 2. Keeping their own culture in. • (ie. Avoid cultural appropriation)

  16. What role does PLACE play in maintaining customs? By defining a place (a town or a neighborhood) or a space for a short amount of time (an annual festival) as representing a culture and its values, members of a local culture can maintain (or reestablish) its customs and reinforce its beliefs.

  17. Rural Local Cultures • Migration into rural areas is less frequent. • Can better separate their culture from others and from popular culture. • Can define their own space. • Daily life my be defined by a shared economic activity.

  18. Makah (Neah Bay, Washington) Why did the Makah people reinstate the whale hunt? To reinvigorate local culture.

  19. LITTLE SWEDEN, USA (LINDSBORG, KS) Why did the residents of Lindsborg define it as a Swedish place? NEOLOCALISM: seeking out the regional culture and reinvigorating it in response to the uncertainty of the modern world.

  20. URBAN LOCAL CULTURES • Can create ethnic neighborhoods within cities. • Creates a space to practice customs. • Can cluster businesses, houses of worship, schools to support local culture. • Migration into ethnic neighborhoods can quickly change an ethnic neighborhood. Examples: Williamsburg, NY North End (Boston), MA

  21. Runners Of The NYC Marathon Run Through Williamsburg (Brooklyn), NY

  22. COMMODIFICATION How are aspects of local culture (material, non-material, place) commodified? What is commodified? Who commodifies it?

  23. AUTHENTICITY Claims of authenticity abound. How do consumers determine what experience/place is “authentic” and what is not?

  24. Irish Pub Company – Pubs Models Irish Pub Company and Guinness Brewing Company created 5 models of pubs and export them around the world.

  25. Edinburgh, Scotland Trinity Hall Irish Pub & Restaurant , Dallas, TX Airports are becoming one of the most popular places to find an Irish Pub Company franchises: KIEV, MOSCOW, ORLY, MALAGA, DUBAI & DUBLIN    

  26. Little Bridge Pub in Dingle, Ireland (not an Irish Pub Company Pub)

  27. - What is the last place you went to or the last product you purchased that claimed to be “authentic?” - What are the challenges of defending the authenticity of this place or product while refuting the authenticity of other similar places or products?

  28. Key Question How is Popular Culture Diffused?

  29. HOW ARE HEARTHS OF POPULAR CULTURE TRAITS ESTABLISHED? • Typically begins with an idea/good and contagious diffusion. • Companies can create/manufacture popular culture. (EX: MTV) • Individuals can create/manufacture popular culture. EX: Tony Hawk (clothing, footware, bikes, skateboards, video games )

  30. The hearthof Phish Concerts is in the northeastern United States, near where the band began in Vermont.

  31. With DISTANCE DECAY, the likelihood of diffusion decreases as time and distance from the hearth increases. With TIME-SPACE COMPRESSION,the likelihood of diffusion depends upon the connectedness among places. Which applies more to popular culture?

  32. Why are popular culture traits usually diffused hierarchically? How is fashion in popular culture an example of hierarchical diffusion?

  33. - Think about your local community (your school campus, your neighborhood, your town). - Find an example of how your local community has taken one aspect of popular culture and makes it your own.

  34. Key Question How can Local and Popular Cultures be seen in the Cultural Landscape?

  35. CULTURAL LANDSCAPE The visible human imprint on the landscape. How have people changed the landscape? What buildings, statues, and so forth have they erected? How do landscapes reflect the values of a culture?

  36. PLACELESSNESS: the loss of uniqueness in a cultural landscape (one place looks like the next).

  37. Convergence of Cultural Landscapes: • Diffusion of architectural forms and planning ideas around the world.

  38. Convergence of Cultural Landscapes: • The widespread distribution of businesses and products creates distinctive landscape stamps around the world.

  39. CONVERGENCE OF CULTURAL LANDSCAPES • Borrowing of idealized landscape images blurs the distinctiveness of PLACE.

  40. Traditional House Types • KNIFFEN’S TRADITIONAL AMERICAN HOUSE TYPES: • New England • Mid-Atlantic • Southern Tidewater

  41. - Think of the cultural landscape of your school campus. - Think of the concept of Placelessness. - Determine whether your campus is a “placeless place” or if the cultural landscape of your school reflects the unique identity of the place. - Imagine you are chosen to design a new student common area on your campus. How could you design it to reflect the uniqueness of your school?

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