Keepers of Tradition
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artisan storytelling
artisanal skill preservation
artistic heritage revival
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ceremonial creative expressions
community artisanship
community-based craftsmanship
community-centered artmaking
craft lineage and transmission
creative community practices
creative practices rooted in ancestry
cultural artistry across generations
cultural celebration through craft
cultural continuity in arts
cultural council research
cultural expression in everyday objects
cultural identity through art
cultural preservation efforts
cultural resilience through art
dance heritage communities
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ethnographic fieldwork findings
expressive traditions of Massachusetts
festival arts traditions
folk art exhibition support
folk performance traditions
handcrafted regional objects
heritage costume design
heritage craft documentation
heritage-based visual traditions
heritage-inspired creative work
immigrant artistic expressions
indigenous creative knowledge
intergenerational creative practices
local craft mastery
local folk mastery
maritime craft heritage
Massachusetts folk artists
material culture of New England
multicultural artistic legacies
multigenerational artistic knowledge
New England cultural diversity
New England folklore studies
regional artisan traditions
regional artistic diversity
regional baskets and weaving
regional craft excellence
sacred arts mastery
state-wide folkli
traditional arts heritage
traditional music practitioners
traditional performance communities
traditional techniques documentation
Product details
- ISBN 9781558496408
- Weight: 870g
- Dimensions: 228 x 252mm
- Publication Date: 30 May 2008
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Throughout Massachusetts, artists carry on and revitalize deeply rooted traditions that take many expressive forms - from Native American basketry to Yankee wooden boats, Armenian lace, Chinese seals, Puerto Rican santos, and Irish music and dance. These keepers of tradition are recognized in their communities as outstanding practitioners of craft, music, dance, and sacred arts. Yet, much of this work is hidden to the public at large, remaining essentially unknown beyond the local community in which it flourishes.This beautifully illustrated volume celebrates and shares the work of a wide array of these living artists. Passed down from person to person within both long-settled and new immigrant communities, traditional art involves the shaping of deeply held cultural values into meaningful artistic forms. ""Keepers of Tradition"" presents material drawn from eight years of intensive field research by folklorists at the Massachusetts Cultural Council - an investigation that has taken researchers into the homes, kitchens, workshops, dance halls, places of worship, parade routes, and festival sites where traditional art is produced, used, valued, and displayed.Featuring more than sixty artists from communities across the state, ""Keepers of Tradition"" showcases high levels of mastery in diverse media - the uniformity and handiness of a Nantucket Lightship basket, the Native quill work on a tobacco pouch, the vibrant colors and textures of a Caribbean Carnival costume, the exquisite gestures of Cambodian dance. At the same time, the text describes the deeply personal and cultural context for each piece of work.This volume is published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name, organized by the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the National Heritage Museum in Lexington, Massachusetts, and on view there from May 2008 through February 2009.
MAGGIE HOLTZBERG is manager of the Folk Arts & Heritage Program at the Massachusetts Cultural Council. She is author of The Lost World of the Craft Printer, producer of the sound recording Georgia Folk: A Sampler of Traditional Sound, and codirector/producer of the documentary film Gandy Dancers.
