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The accordion in the Americas : klezmer, polka, tango, zydeco, and more!

Title
The accordion in the Americas : klezmer, polka, tango, zydeco, and more! / edited by Helena Simonett.
ISBN
9780252037207 (cloth)
0252037200 (cloth)
9780252078712 (pbk.)
0252078713 (pbk.)
Publication
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2012]
Copyright Notice Date
©2012
Physical Description
330 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 13, 2012
Series
Music in American life.
Music in American life
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 F. 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 L. 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 F. 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 : forré music in Brazil / Megwen Loveless
The accordion in new scores : paradigms of authorship and identity in William Schimmel's musical "realities" / Marion Jacobson.
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