Folk Culture In Bell Hooks's Let The Good Times Roll

The diversity of culture is an incredible notion. It is unfathomable how the anatomy of the human race is so similar, yet so different in the behaviors and ideas that take place. The two primary cultures I am focusing on throughout this essay are the differentiation between popular culture, and indigenous culture. I will also make the point of folk culture, and how it has slowly transformed itself from its self sufficiency, to relying more on the ways of popular culture.

This past weekend I visited the Numunga powwow and the cultural traditions are absolutely phenomenal. Being free to the public to experience and expressive dance that it routed back to the ancestors. True expression of one's diversity with intense beauty. I am not Native American but how I do treasure and appreciate different cultures. In these type of social situations communities are learning and exciting way. With the goal of acceptance of all people that could have personal meaning and understanding into the future.

Culture influences people’s perspectives of the world and others through their childhood and how, when, and where they were raised. In the essay, “An Indian Father’s Plea,” Robert Lake writes about how his Indian child’s traditional way of learning is different from those in western education systems and that he's not a “slow” learner but learns in a unique way from his peers. In the personal essay, “Two Ways to Belong in America,” Bharati Mukherjee describes her differing views of living in America with her sister, despite both being raised in India. In the poem, “My Mother Pieced Quilts,” by Teresa Palomo Acosta, Teresa how this quilt that her mother made for her incorporates all these pieces of her past that are stitched together. In the short story, “Everyday Use,” a mother describes the effects of living in a low income community and a certain style of parenting that shaped the way her two daughters view their past and their heritage and how both views are completely different. In all these pieces of writing, they all illustrate the effects of beliefs, heritage, and symbolism within a culture and how it molds the way people interpret others and the world.

A community is defined as a group of people that live in the same place and share the same characteristics and behaviors. David Hackett Fischer in his book states that many different characteristics make up a community and make them unique from other communities. Many different components go into making a community and defining a particular groups behaviors and ways of life. These traditional behaviors and ways of life are known as folkways. Folkways include but are not limited to: family ways, marriage ways, work ways and power ways. The Hmong culture demonstrates how important folkways are and how each folkway helps to develop the community’s culture.

Across centuries people have asked, what does it mean to live a wholesome life? Is it found in material objects or by putting faith in the unseen? For native peoples, the answer is found in time. Time—the past, present, and future. A relationship to history and the future allows for better understanding of personal identity, cultural tradition, and the ability to change wrongdoing in humanity. Applied ingenious studies examines dance, music, art, and religion as a means linking these elements together.

From these stories, I was able to identify various elements of Native American culture. For example, passing traditions from generation to generation by telling stories, katsina dolls, and zuni fetishes. Native Americans told stories that always had a main theme and key points in order to teach a lesson. This tradition is highly respected in the Native American culture. In my culture, it is a tradition to share stories that teach a lesson or simply explains a myth or legend. Katsina dolls are seen as teaching tools for young Native American children. Parents used them to pass down traditions and values of their tribe to their children. In my culture, this is not normally done. Stories are told, but most of the time dolls or other tools are

With 7.3 billion people on earth today, some of us still encompass ourselves with traditions from thousands of years ago. The pursuit of tradition is wired in the heads of the future and carried from one generation to the next; thus breaking family customs is impractical. On the contrary, breaking traditions can create a more desirable future. Tradition does play a role in my life. However, I learned to part from family customs and see the world for myself.

Isn’t it fascinating how all human race looks alike, has same biological form, is created and born same way, but yet completely different in how we do things or how we behave inside our cultures and ethnicities? Culture presents the sum of attitudes, customs, and beliefs that distinguishes one group of people from another. Culture is transmitted, through language, material objects, ritual, institutions, and art, from one generation to the next (Hirsch, Kett & Trefil, 2002).

Critics claim that by objectifying culture, public folklorists limit or deny the agency of the practitioners of traditions whom they represent. This article analyzes how public folklorists engage dialogically with community members to mutually shape frames of representation, while facilitating community cultural self-determination. Arguing against a view of objectification as categorically exploitative, I demonstrate how agency is pursued and accomplished through cultural representations that may entail objectification but generate benefits for community members as well as for folklorists.

Folklore is a term used to describe the traditional beliefs and customs that every community had which were passed down the generations through word of mouth. Each community had their own folklores whereby they used oral traditions such us proverbs, tales and poems to ensure that everyone in the community, especially the children, knew and was aware of the customs. This helped develop a sense of pride and respect for the people’s culture since they understood why some of the cultural practices were done and the consequences of going against these practices and customs. Folklores may lack substantial evidences but people still keep faith in their beliefs due to the respect and trust they have for their ancestors who were actually believed to

Attending a community event in the El Paso area was very interesting, because I have never attended an event in the city. I chose to pay a visit and explore a well known event “El Paso's Chalk The Block”. The event is composed of several of the city's artist and also artists from out of the area. The artists competed in this event, by decorating the sidewalks of downtown El Paso. Aside from the artists there was plenty of local independent entrepreneurs. They also displayed their very crafty artwork. Many unique handmade items were for sale. This was a three day event, where the local residents and visitors from out of town flooded the streets of downtown, El Paso.

There are so many different cultures across the globe that use music or dance as a form of different values and beliefs. In reading a lot of different articles to see how this would be best written I found that a lot of Indian cultures did a lot of dances for cultural beliefs for example the Lakota, Navajo, Ponca, Ojibway tribes did multiple dances to help with their way of life. This paper will explain why these cultures believe in the expression of dance to help with their way of life. I will explain the difference between the Lakota Indian Tribe’s cultural Dance and the Ponca Indian Tribe.

combinations of many cultures and traditions form all parts of the world, as well as our own. One

Known as one of the best Ohio festivals, it is no surprise more than 175 juried craftsmen and artisans travel from all over Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Michigan to Lake County to sell their wares. All items are crafted and made in the manner of Americana, traditional,

Everyone around the world is a part of a tradition, cultural or heritage. Traditions is a practice or something handing down by mouth to generations after generations. Therefore, traditions come in many different forms such as information, beliefs, legends or anything specially customized by a culture. Culture can be define as a behaviors from a particular social or age group as a way of living, which becomes in heritage down from their ancestor to the next generations. Each cultural have their own unique ways which other may have a different perception about them, which can be either positive or negative. Whereas many issues in the world come from the way people view other people around them who have different opinions and beliefs than those which are set in today’s society. History is best honored through preservation or use. Ritual or items passed down from generation to generation’s holds great value not to mention tells a story about the family culture, which shows the Value of Tradition and Heritage.