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.

Folklife Today Podcast

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

The language you speak changes the colors you seeThere wasn’t an English word for the color “orange” until 200 years after the citrus fruit of the same name arrived in Europe.

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