GEOG 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Folk Music, Folk Art, Media Imperialism
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Culture: what people care about, what people take care of. Folk vs popular: tradiional vs contemporary, classic vs modern, rural vs urban, local vs cosmopolitan. Custom: a repeiive act of a group, performed to the extent that it becomes characterisic of the group. Culture: a collecion of social customs produces a groups material culture; the body of material traits, customary beliefs, and social forms that consitute the disinct tradiion of a group of people. Leisure: games, music, art all universal but in diferent ways. Every group takes element from the environment and incorporates it into their culture in their own way. Folk vs popular: folk-small, fairly homogenous groups; mostly isolated in rural areas; spreads by relocaion difusion, popular-large, diverse groups; widespread and urban; spreads through media. Hearth: a paricular place from which every social custom is developed. Tradiional; not designer; cratspeople: folk housing- must be made from locally available building materials; disincive forms (no perfect house design)
