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Geography. Popular Culture: A wide-ranging group of
heterogeneous people, who stretch across identities
and across the world,"— Presentation transcript:

1 Popular Culture AP Human Geography

2 Popular Culture: A wide-ranging group of heterogeneous

people, who stretch across identities and across the world, and
who embrace cultural traits such as music, dance, clothing, and
food preference that change frequently and are part of the
cultural landscape. Madonna wearing a red string Kabbalah
bracelet.
3 How is Pop Culture Determined? By everyday
interactions, needs and desires, the “cultural moments” that
make up our daily lives
4 Forms of Pop Culture Television Music Fashion Food
Sports Toys Comic books Film Advertising Cyberspace
5 Characteristics of popular culture Constantly changing
Based in large, heterogeneous groups of people Based mainly in
urban areas Material goods mass-produced by machines in
factories Prevailing money economy
 6 Characteristics of popular culture More numerous
individual relationships, but less personal Weaker family
structure Distinct division of labor with highly specialized
professions and jobs Considerable leisure time available to
most people Police, army, and courts take the place of family
and church in maintaining order
7 Popular culture If a single hallmark of popular culture
exists, it is change Words such as growth, progress, fad, and
trend crop up frequently in newspapers and conversations Vast
majority of people in developed countries belong to the popular
culture
8 Popular culture If a single hallmark of popular culture
exists, it is change Contributions to the spread of popular
culture Industrialization Urbanization Rise of formal education
Increase in leisure time Increase in technology
9 Cyberspace Perhaps the personal computer and Internet
access have created another new type of place Certain words
we use imply it has a geography—”Cyberspace” The information
superhighway connects not two points, but all points, creating a
new sort of place Encourages and speeds cultural diXusion
10 Internet Connections

11 Food and drink What we eat and drink diXers markedly

from one part of the country and world to another DiXerence in
alcoholic drink consumption in the United States Beer has
highest per capita consumption levels in the West Least beer is
sold in the Lower South and Utah Whiskey, both legal and
illegal, has been a traditional southern beverage Californians
place more importance on wine
13 Food and drink Foods vary across North America In the
South, barbecued pork and beef, fried chicken, and hamburgers
have greater than average popularity More pizza is consumed in
the North Focus of Italian immigration Pizza diXused to the
southern states only in the mid-1950s
14 Food and drink Importance of fast food restaurants
varies greatly within the United States Stronghold is in the South
— 57 percent in Mississippi Northeast has lowest rate of such
eateries — 27 percent in New York and Vermont
16 Popular music The many diXerent styles of popular
music all reveal geographic patterning in levels of acceptance
Elvis Presley, a generation after his death retains an important
place in American popular culture
18 Sports Abundant leisure time has allowed North
Americans to devote time watching or participating in sports
Few aspects of popular culture are as widely publicized as our
games From Little League through professional contests,
athletics receive almost daily attention from members of
popular culture Even fantasy sports now are increasingly
important in pop culture
19 Sports The nineteenth century gave us football, ice
hockey, baseball, soccer, and basketball— our major spectator
sports Our folk ancestors played games, but most were limited
to children and little time was spent on them Concept of
professional athletes and admission-paying spectators is not
found in folk culture
21 Advertising Most eXective device for popular culture
diXusion Commercial advertising of retail products bombards
us visually and orally Using psychology, we are sold products we
do not need
22 Advertising Modern advertising is very place-conscious
Products and services are linked to popular, admired places
Example of the “Marlboro Man” and the romanticized American
West
23 Communication barriers to diXusion Spread can be
greatly reduced if access to the media is denied To control
programming of radio and television is to control much of the
diXusion of popular culture Government censorship can also
provide barriers to diXusion Islamic fundamentalist regime in
Iran during 1995 Long opposed Western popular culture as a
corrupting inbuence Outlawed television satellite dishes to try
and prevent citizens from watching programs broadcast in
foreign countries
24 Consumerism and the link to Pop Culture Consumerism
propels the insatiable belief that we need what we do not have
A fundamental frame of reference for relating to oneself, to
others, to the environment as a whole
25 Consumerism and the link to Pop Culture Ideas
propelled by the culture industry: Last season’s fashions are so
last season Shopping completes us Average adult – 48 new
pieces of clothing a year, child – 70 new toys We can all live like
celebrities We evaluate our consumption in reference to groups
that live gnancially beyond our own means (rather than our
neighbors) Average household credit card debt is $15,799
26 Beauty and the link to Pop Culture Our self-worth is
determined by our looks and cultural norms of sexual
attractiveness Airbrushed images of perfected bodies normalize
an unattainable expectation of beauty.
27 Brands and the link to Pop Culture Brands matter
McDonald’s coXee beats Starbuck in unbiased Consumer
Reports taste tests. Ramones t-shirts have outsold their cds and
records 10 to 1 People just want to be cool
28 Folk Culture Refers to cultural traits that are traditional,
no longer widely practiced by a large amount of people and
generally isolated in small, often rural areas
29 “TV and the Cloning of Culture” Close Reading Activity
You will have the next 12 minutes to close read and annotate
this text.
30 “TV and the Cloning of Culture” Close Reading Activity In
Elbow Partners, answer the following questions in your
notebooks: 1. In what ways did the arrival of the television hurt
the culture of the Inuit? 2. Why did the Canadian government
want the Inuit to be exposed to television? 3. How did men and
women appear to be aXected diXerently by the arrival of
television and other aspects of “modernization”? 4. What does
Jerry Mander think should be done about the destruction of
indigenous culture? 5. What do you think should be done? 6.
Mander attributes the decline of traditional culture to the arrival
of television. What other factors could it be? 7. Mander
discusses the values that people learn from tv. Think about the
last time you watched tv (with commercials) and write down
what it is that people on TV appear to value.

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