3A - Pop & Folk Culture and Language
Video Introductions to Culture and Language
Folk vs. Popular Culture
Can you determine what the differences are? How would you define the difference between folk and popular culture based on this video?
Translation Matters
What happens when you run popular song lyrics though Google translate a few times? It changes the meaning of the song.
Recognize these?
John Green goes over 107 different slang words from around the world.
The Library of Congress kicked off this new podcast series on October 29, 2018, with an episode titled "Haunting Tunes for Halloween." The podcast aims to tell stories about the cultural traditions and folklore of diverse communities, combining brand-new interviews and narration with songs, stories, music, and oral history from the collections of the Library of Congress's American Folklife Center.
Language
Beatles’ ‘Blackbird’ Sung in Mi’kmaq Language
To raise awareness of her native language, 16-year-old Emma Stevens sang a version of The Beatles’ 1968 classic “Blackbird” in the Mi’kmaq language, an Eastern Algonquian language spoken by nearly 11,000 in Canada and the United States. A member of the Eskasoni First Nation, the Nova Scotia student sang lyrics that were painstakingly translated by Katani Julian, a teacher who works in language revitalization. Julian told WBUR. “My language is very different from other ones.” “There’s a lot of syllables in ours. And there’s a lot of long words that translate into something really easy in English.” From Open Culture
Indo-European Language Branch
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Quizlet Sets
Folk and Popular Culture
Questions: Teacher Created (49 questions): https://quizlet.com/_40vpq1
Vocab: Teacher Created (52 Terms): https://quizlet.com/_4ycwx
Vocab: Student Created (28 terms): https://quizlet.com/_4l9g2
Language Decks
Student Created (32 terms): https://quizlet.com/_2c8fp
Teacher Created (33 terms): https://quizlet.com/_5eg3v
Student Created (23 terms): https://quizlet.com/_4upwl
