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Week 5 Activity: Geog 107
Cultures
All questions are a point unless otherwise noted.
Part 1: Popular Music Trends
Make sure you have completed the weekly readings and watched the videos from the Week 5 Readings and Video page. Then, go to the
Popular Music Interactive Map
Links to an external site.
and answer the following questions.
Open the
Popular Music map
Links to an external site.
. (Just a note, you may need to sign into your COCC AGOL login, however I was able to access the map without logging in). The map contains the layer, Popular Music This Week, which
contains links to Spotify Charts, showing the top songs by country during the past week. Countries shown in green are included in the charts database.
Click the United States. In the pop-up window, click on the link to Spotify Charts. This takes you to a Spotify website, but you do not need to log into Spotify or have an account.
Scroll down and make note of the top song for the week.
Go back to the map and hover your cursor over the layer name and click Show Table.
In the attribute table, you can see a link to Spotify Charts for the 58 countries with data.
Click through some of the links for different countries and try to find multiple other countries that have the same #1 weekly song as the U.S. and some countries that have a different #1 weekly song.
1.
To which countries do you see the top US song being diffused? Name at least five countries in your answer.
2.
How widely diffused is the song? Does it cluster regionally? Are there any regions where it is not #1? Be specific in your
description.
3.
Select some non-English speaking countries and view their top songs. Describe how language acts as a barrier to diffusion, or how pop music transcends it. Give specific examples.
If you are unfamiliar with a country’s official language, view the
CIA’s World Factbook
Links to an external site.
to identify the country’s official language.
4.
Do you see evidence of distance decay with pop music? In other words, do pop songs cluster in nearby countries, or do
they transcend distance? Give specific examples.
5.
Based on the idea of hierarchical diffusion, which cities or types of cities are likely to pick up on pop songs first? Consider the geography quiz from past week’s module that had you identify the world’s largest cities.
6.
How might folk culture music differ from pop culture music?
Part 2: Cultures, Subcultures, and Countercultures
Make sure to watch the
Cultures, Subcultures, and Countercultures video
Links to an external site.
on this week’s readings and video page. Then, answer the following questions.
7.
From the video, what is the difference between ‘high’ and ‘low’ cultures? What example is provided in the video to help paint the picture between these two types of cultures?
Low cultures are the cultural ideas and behaviors that are popular with most people in a society, and high cultures are cultural patterns that distinguish a society’s elite. The example they show in the video to compare these two are
the People’s Choice Awards vs the Oscars. While a popular movie might win at the People’s Choice awards, it might not at the Oscars and vice versa. They can both be both very good movies, but very different culturally. 8.
Historically, you have probably enjoyed having the summers
off from school, maybe not but it is usually a celebrated part
of education. Explain the historical cultural lag that keeps the education system having the summer offs?
Getting summers off from school began when children needed to take time off during harvest, when the U.S was a more agricultural country. Today, there’s no real reason for why we still have summer vacation, it’s just what we’ve always done.
9.
The video provides examples of cultural diffusion in American history. What are at least two specific examples of
cultural diffusion the video explains in regards to ‘classic American’ culture?
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Burgers and fries are actually German and Belgian
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The American cowboy is actually an update on the Mexican vaquero
Part 3: Culture and Food
Food is culture. Learn more from the
USDA’s Culture and Food website
Links to an external site.
. Visit the website and then answer question #10.
10.
Review the Culture and Food website from the USDA. Review one of the specific links on the website and report out on what the website is teaching you about culture and food.
To complete for #10:
-Report out the name of the specific link.
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https://www.myplate.gov/myplate-kitchen
-Describe what the website is focused on teaching others about.
It teaches others about healthy and budget friendly recipes and resources.
-What is one specific fact you learned from the website.
One thing I learned is that they have different eating patterns that pertain to different life stages. For example, when I clicked on the young adult section, it focused specifically on creating healthy “grab and go” options like dried fruits or popcorn. It also talked about a form of meal prepping by freezing leftovers for easy ways to make the food you make last the longest. -Explain how this is a cultural website.
This is a cultural website because it focuses on different foods and ways to be healthy from different cultures/places around the world.