GER 1502 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Folklore, Indo-European Languages
25 Oct 2017
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Lecture 2: 8/30/17: folk culture: produced by and for the same group of people. Simple and straightforward: high culture: produced by and for the elite. Part of an acknowledged canon (in established works of art) ex. Composers of opera: popular culture: produced by elite, but made for everyone who wants to enjoy. Not canonized: the division of folk culture and popular culture is creation and transmission. Folk culture is informal, while popular culture needs to be published or produced: reciprocal influence and appropriation: folklore becoming high/popular culture. Sleeping beauty was turned into a ballet, and also a disney movie: popular culture becoming folklore. Happy birthday song was composed by someone but no one knows that anymore and everyone knows the song and still sings it. What is indo-european: the family of languages which goes back from a common linguistic background, proto indo european (pie): was the original language.
