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The diffusion ofclothing trends is inspiredby the bright colors andunique looks from aroundthe world. Fashiondesigners are incorporatingtrends seen in othercountries and makingfashion lines that are seenon the runway today.Modern necklaces found inthe fashion world today areinspired by the big beadsused in African necklaces.The ruffles shown intraditional Latin dresses arealso coming into trend,mainly seen in promdresses. A pop star thatrocks the latest fashiontrends is the famous FionaFlynn. She came from the
Around the world,
traditional clothing is the
inspiration for top fashion
designers into creating the
latest trends
city of Dublin andhad a very casualwardrobe. Whiletouring around theworld, the fashiontrends influenced herwardrobe and nowshe is trending thelatest fashions fads.
Top 100 Songs Around the World:
Irish Popularity
Some Nights
By: Fun We Are Never Ever Getting
Back Together By: Taylor Swift
Good Time
By: Owl City and
Carly Rae Jepsen Blow Me(One
Last Kiss)
By: Pink Whistle
By: Flo Rida
Payphone
By: Maroon 5
Wide Awake
By: Katy Perry
Call Me Maybe
By: Carly Rae Jepsen
The Making of Tour Amour
iona Flynn is an international music
sensation. Her famous Tour Amour goes
from New York to exotic places like
Morocco and Kenya. As said by Fiona,
“There is a lot more to touring than just
putting your finger on a map and saying
‘let’s go there’! Studying culture and the
hierarchical dispersion of culture has to do
with a lot of it.” Fiona holds a valued point
in saying that the study of culture and its
dispersion is a key to success when touring.
Although not all of Fiona’s tours went as
planned, she dealt with tough issues with
fortitude. You wouldn’t want to tour
somewhere that they’ve never heard of you,
would you?
Geographers are always looking for
connections between what is happening
and why. This can be thought of as a field
of inquiry. The questions are limitless; and
the more answers that are found, the more
interconnected everything seems. Tour
groups often use geographical findings to
advance their opportunities. Concepts that
geographers have come across include
hierarchical diffusion, distance decay, and
cultural landscape. Hierarchical dispersion
is a form of diffusion in which an idea or
innovation spreads by passing first among
the most connected places or peoples. You
can see how studying this can help
organize a tour. A tour like Tour Amour
could very much go through the process of
hierarchical dispersion, starting in the
more populous hearth-like cities. Trends
move from hearths to places they go well
noticed and heard of. In the case of pop
music, the “hierarchy” is teenagers. In
today’s society, teenagers play a crucial role
in what’s popular and what’s not. Teens
have very pliable, indecisive minds which
contribute to the rapidly changing fads.
One day, listening to classical rock may be
in the norm. The next day, listening to
classical rock might be preposterous!
Fiona Flynn’s style of music is
considered a “pop” genre; for it to be
successful, tour locations must be central
hearths. Fiona is pop culture, and little local
culture areas are probably not going to
know as much about her as the hearth-like
areas are. Distance decay is another factor
Fiona says affects her tour. “The more away
from hearths places are, the less they are
affected by popular culture they are. That
puts limitations on places where we can
tour.” Common locations for music tours in
the “pop” genre include New York, Atlanta,
and London. Record companies do more
elaborate studies on how to produce “the
next big thing”. A common way musicians
like Fiona gain popularity is by performing
on channels such as MTV. Geographer
Clayton Rosati did such a study to
F
The Making of Tour Amour emphasize the role of MTV on popular
culture. Rosati’s results showed that
“MTV’s incorporation of rap music and Hip
Hop expressive forms into its production in
1997 helped produce music celebrities”.
(De Blij, 2007, pg. 113)
The pull between globalized popular
culture and local culture can be seen in the
cultural landscape which is another factor
or strategy that is used. Fiona likes to think
of herself as bringing people together, and
looking at the cultural landscape can
ensure a successful tour. However, not all
people are open to this assimilation. Others
view homogeneity between all countries
and various ethnicities as a threat. Local
cultures often credit their music as a
distinctive characteristic that is a part of
their customs. When international
influences breeze into local cultures, new
eras begin. According to geographer
Edward Relph, “Placelessness is a word to
describe the loss of uniqueness of place in
the cultural landscape so that one place
looks like the next.” (De Blij, 2007, pg.
117) This example relates to not just
physical landscape, but to cultural interests
as well.
As noted in Human Geography
People, Place, and Culture (page 11) “The
five themes of geography are location,
human-environment interactions, region,
place, and movement.” These themes are
the exact points that make up Tour Amour,
and what make it an international
accomplishment. The location of where the
concerts are placed is vital, and the way
people interact with the concerts (EX:
buying tickets or not going) is
indispensable for the tour. Region comes
into play since there is no way Tour Amour
can go places that are not in the “pop-
culture” region, thus they must stay there.
Fiona mentions that while studying the
different regions, she had to pay attention
to perceptual regions, such as the
generalized area considered the “South” of
North America. On a smaller scale, Fiona
looked at functional regions such as Atlanta
and its suburbs. All the places on the earth
are unique and bring certain likings and
values to the tour. Finally, movement is the
third “theme”. How is she supposed to have
a concert when no one can come to it?
When all these factors come together, it
becomes obvious why certain musicians
gain more popularity than others.
Musicians truly must plan out their
steps on how to get to where they need to
be. However, not all musicians follow the
same path Fiona did; some gain popularity
through the Internet.
The last things that make up her
tour strategy are GPS, maps, and GIS. These
things all either tell Fiona and her crew
where they’re going, or show them how to
The Making of Tour Amour get there. Geographical Information
Systems layers the information unlike the
others but they all have the same goal.
Mapping out data keeps the team
organized. The complete Tour Amour map
comes together to show the associations of
place and diffusion. Using these new
technological advances, Fiona’s team can
put together pinpoints and facts about how
to travel. Without GIS, the team would not
know which areas in Ireland are most
populated, and differentiate between the
places in Ireland in which the population is
mostly youth.
On the next few pages, there are maps
of Fiona Flynn’s Tour Amour locations.
Comparing them to population dot maps,
there is a clear correlation between youth
population and event venues. Fiona’s team
gathered information from census data to
determine population sizes. Every single
detail of Fiona’s tour was though out on
different scales. First, the team chose out
the most populated countries. Then, Fiona
personally studied each country to find the
most populated region. Within the region,
further studies were made to find the
demographics of the densest populations.
Tour Amour has multifarious
subjects that make it pop, but somehow
they all harmonize to bring us the complex
musical beauty that is tour Amour.