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The accordion in the Americas : klezmer, polka, tango, zydeco, and more! / edited by Helena Simonett.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Music in American Life
- Music in American life
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Accordion--United States--History.
- Accordion.
- Accordionists--United States.
- Accordionists.
- Accordion music--Social aspects--United States.
- Accordion music.
- Immigrants--United States--Music--History and criticism.
- Immigrants.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2012]
- Summary:
- An invention of the Industrial Revolution, the accordion provided the less affluent with an inexpensive, loud, portable, and durable 'one-man-orchestra' capable of producing melody, harmony, and bass all at once. This collection considers the accordion and its myriad forms.
- Contents:
- From old world to new shores / Helena Simonett
- Accordion jokes : a folklorist's view / Richard March
- From chanky-chank to Yankee chanks : the Cajun accordion as identity symbol / Mark DeWitt
- Garde ici et garde lá-bas : Creole accordion in Louisiana / Jared Snyder
- "Tejano and proud" : the accordion traditions of South Texas and the border region / Cathy Ragland
- Preserving territory : the changing language of the accordion in Tohono O'odham waila music / Janet Sturman
- Accordions and working-class culture along Lake Superior's South Shore / James P. Leary
- Play me a tarantella, a polka, or jazz : Italian Americans and the currency of piano accordion music / Christine Zinni
- The klezmer accordion : an outsider among outsiders / Joshua Horowitz
- Beyond Vallenato : the accordion traditions in Colombia / Egberto Bermúdez
- "A hellish instrument" : the story of the tango bandoneón / Mara Susana Azzi
- No ma' se oye el fuinfuán : the noisy accordion in the Dominican Republic / Sydney Hutchinson
- Between the folds of Luiz Gonzaga's sanfona : forre music in Brazil / Megwen Loveless
- The accordion in new scores : paradigms of authorship and identity in William Schimmel's musical "realities" / Marion Jacobson.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-71262-8
- 0-252-09432-8
- OCLC:
- 816042048
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