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Chapter 7-2 Northern Hearth2. Southern New England

•featured by sturdy posts and stout horizontal beams held together by simple joinery and sided by overlapping clapboards, steep roofs and massive central chimneys.(fig 7.10)•1) garrison house - from medieval Europe•2) saltbox house - asymmetrical gable roof covering a shed or extra room•3) New England large house up to 10 rooms, lobby entrance, central chimney and variation of 4) upright-and-wing house

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Middle Atlantic Hearths• more influential than other styles. log cabin evolved from

there, I house.

• Germans/ Scandinavians/ eastern Finns introduced log houses in the 17th century in Delaware and New Jersey.

• Delaware Valley hearth : four-over-four (fig 7.11), I house (two-over-two), bank barn combined animal shelter with the grain storage the threshing functions (English barn only store crops)

• Chesapeake Bay : raised foundations, outside end chimneys, detached kitchen, front porches and front -to-rear ventilation passages, sometimes brick but mostly wood frame. Brought to Indiana, Illinois, Iowa (I House named after these)

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Southern Hearths

• The Southern Tidewater - Charleston single house to avoid inland humid and disease. (fig 7.12)

• Mississippi Delta - French built hearth in New Orleans and lower Mississippi during 18th century. Grenier house in Louisiana with raised floor, Shotgun house, introduced by Haitian black (fig 7.13)

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Interior and Western Hearths

• originally built sod dugouts or earth houses in the absence of timber. Balloon frame with cheap wire and standard size frame. developed one-story gabled rectangle. double-wing, and two-story foursquare farmhouses.

• Utah - central-hall house• thick-walled Spanish adobe house • Western states with Middle Atlantic culture

hearth, log-cabin from Delaware Valley...

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Architectural Diffusions (fig. 7.14)

• Three source regions in the U.S. -New England, Middle Atlantic and Southern Coastal

• New England - based on simple English original, variants spread to NY,OH,IN, IL, WI and IA

• Middle Atlantic - started from English I house and Finnish-German log building. Southward along the Appalachian Uplands, westward across PA, into Ohio Valley Midwest - creating a interior “national hearth”. Westward to the N Rockies and Pacific NWest, imprints found such as dogtrot (fig 7.15), saddlebag house plans and double-crib barn design. During 19th century, log construction and techniques carried across to Pacific coast.

• Southern Coastal Stream - diffused to Upland South

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Fencing• Stone fence: glacial fieldstone available in NY and New

England. Sedimentary rock (angular/flat) in Southern OH, IN or part of KY made fence easier to build than in glacial boulder in NY and New England

• Wood fence: “bulk” -from French Canada to S Appalachian (7.16a) “Wattle fence” (7.16b) common in medieval Europe, only in MA and Virginia.

• Angled-rail, zigzag log fence (snake/worm) found in S and eastern portion of the Middle West (7.16c)

• Post-and-rail fence- consume less land and fewer rails - popular in S New England and Delaware Valley (7.16d)

• 19th century, wired fencing was popular

• hedge and sod fencing prevailed in forest margins to mountains.

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Nonmaterial Folk Culture• songs/foods are more durable than physical culture which were

replaced, forgotten or left behind.

• Cuisine - selection of foods and the style of cookery - “Cookefest”, products of local environment.

• Brunswick stew, clambake, smoked salmon, Cornflakes, and beef jerky are Indian food and American food - New England clam chowder, southern pone, johnnycake, hush puppies......

• Folk-tie: Figure 7.17 shows the traditional annual round of folk culture farming in Louisiana.

• Ethnic peoples in region formed a particular food preference, such as Kimchi in Korea, Sashimi in Japan, Fried Rice in China, Spring roll in Vietnam......

• Drink - rum from Indian and Tidewater sugarcane and molasses. Whiskey from Scots and the Scotch-Irish to America, particular to the Appalachian

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Drink Preferences/Folk Songs• Moonshine production in Tennessee in 1950s. (7.18) isolated

environment vs.. production• 7.19 Folk song regions of eastern U.S. - songs carried by settlers to

the New World then turned into Americanized– Northern songs : unaccompanied solo singing in clear hard tones– Southern Backwoods and Appalachian : unaccompanied high-pitched, and

nasal solo singing, based on English tradition, modified by Appalachian “hardscrabble” life, slowly evolved into today’s “country music”

– Western song: from N and S mixture along the Ohio Valley and across Mississippi, narrative songs reflected life of cowboy,riverman, sodbuster and gold seeker.

– Canadian songs - fishing sealing and whaling life in Newfoundland and Atlantic coast, with strong Irish character, solo without accompany.

– Black - union of Anglo American folk song, English country dancing, and West African musical patterns. Choral and instrumental, hand/feet used to establish rhythm, strong beat, leader-chorus style and deep-pitched mellow voices

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music

• Jazz originated from New Orleans in the later 19th century - a union of minstrel show ragtime and the blues, typical south black music

• Urban blues - harsh vocal accompanied by electric guitars, harmonicas, and piano - product of Chicago brought by artists from MS. (7.20)

• Bluegrass - high-pitched derivative of Scottish bagpipe sound and church singing tradition

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Folk Medicine• Folk health wisdom- plants, barks, leaves, roots,• European/American herb medicines:basil for melancholy, thyme tea

eased sorrow (thyme for sore muscle in Chinese medicine) fennel for obesity. Sage for cold, balm tea for fever, marjoram for cough/ bronchitis/ yellow jaundice. Lemon balm and rosemary for boldness, cold boiled chervil roots for aged.

• Native American: Sassafras - cure everything, Bearberry- astringent/diuretic Boneset for intermittent fever/arthritis, rheumatism, and gout. Goldenrod for fever, chest pain, boils and cold.

• Top of plants for head disease and roots for leg problems• Folk medicine best preserved in Upland South and southern

Appalachian, and along Mexican border in Texas• “Dog bite cured by dog hair”.

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Chinese Folk Medicine

• Apple (without skin) - diarrhea

• pear + honey - cough

• bleeding nose - chive + egg

• prevent heart disease - red dates

• ginseng..ginkgo

• Acupuncture

• ..

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Chinese Folk Medicine

• Apple (without skin) - diarrhea

• pear + honey - cough

• bleeding nose - chive + egg

• prevent heart disease - red dates

• ginseng..ginkgo

• Acupuncture

• ..

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Chapter 7-3

• Uniformities and Globalization - popular culture–Global McDonald and Pizza Hut, Coca-cola..Polo Shirt, Nike Air.

– Taste of China (fast Chinese food)

– Popular Culture - diffuses rapidly, drive-through to-go... auto culture.

– 38,000 shopping malls, Mall of America, Woodfield Mall in Chicago, King of Prussia in Philadelphia.

• Popular culture is commercialized culture.– chain stores (book store), cinemas, Kinkos

–Wal-Marts, K-Marts, Sears,..

•Regional Emphasis– uneven distr. of classical town names (7.31) suggest that no all expressions of popular culture are spatially uniform.

– 7.32 a.TV viewers, b. Snack Nuts c. Fraternal Orders d. Smoking

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Vernacular Regions• Figure 7.34 - the

generalized consensus regions based on an understood sense of place, derived from current population and landscape characteristic as well as on historical differences that impart distinctive regional behaviors and attitudes.