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Chapter 7 - Folk and Popular Culture

Chapter 7 - Folk and Popular Culture. A. Folk Culture Anglo American hearths and folk building traditions Nonmaterial folk culture: food, music, medicines, and folklore Folk regions and regionalism B. Popular Culture Nature and patterns of popular culture

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Chapter 7 - Folk and Popular Culture

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  1. Chapter 7 - Folk and Popular Culture A. Folk Culture Anglo American hearths and folk building traditions Nonmaterial folk culture: food, music, medicines, and folklore Folk regions and regionalism B. Popular Culture Nature and patterns of popular culture Diffusion and regionalism in popular culture

  2. Intro • Folk Culture - material and nonmaterial aspects of daily life preserved by smaller groups partially or totally isolated from the mainstream currents of the larger society around them. • from different ethnic groups. • Popular culture formed from common interests, and communication. • Three elements intertwined.

  3. Folk cultural Diversity and Regionalism • folk culture can be defined as the collective heritage of institutions, customs, skills, dress, and way of life of a rural community. • Material culture - physical things: from musicl instr. to furniture, tools, buildings - comprises the built environment (landscape created by humans) • Non-material culture - songs,story, speech, philosophy... • No true folk societies exist in Anglo America • Old Order Amish - reject modern technology - the “good life” must be reduced to its simplest forms. (fig 7.2)

  4. Anglo American Hearths (fig 7.4) • From Europe to the U.S. through relocation diffusion, and then from east coast to entire U.S. through expansion diffusion, cultural identities • French settlement in St. Lawrence Valley • Upper Canada - with New England folk house • Southern New England - from rural southern England • Hudson Valley - from Dutch.Flemish, English, German, and French Huguenot settlers • Delaware River - from English/Scottish-Irish/Swedish and German. • Chesapeake Bay - Mainly English settlers • Southern Tidewater - English modified by West Indian, Huguenot, and African influence • Salt Lake hearth

  5. Figure 7.5 The extended family compound of the Bambara of Mali • Rural House in China - Hakka’s To Lou: house 700 people • Cave dwelling in China • Folke Houses (Fig 7.6, 7.7) • Maasai - in Mayotte, southern Africa, France affiliated • China -Xinjiang - Uygur yurt • Reed Dwelling of the Uros people on Lake Titicaca, Peru • Icelandic sod farm house • Nias Island, West Coast of Sumatera, Indonesia • Stone House in Naple

  6. Lower St. Lawrence Valley (fig 7.9) • One of the few areas with similar building structure as seen in France. 3 major styles: • Norman cottages - same in Normandy • Quebec cottage - more spread, two unequal room, with a steeply pitched roof with wide overhanging eaves • Montreal house - large stone house • Quebec long barn - unlike 3 major types,this is not found outside of French Canada

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