Squeeze This!: A Cultural History of the Accordion in America (Folklore Studies in Multicultural World)
 "A serious work of musical and cultural history."--Shelf Awareness "Using meticulous research, Jacobson not only touches on how topics as diverse as immigration, movies, war, and feminism have influenced the accordion's popularity, but she also finds time to drop in countless little known pop culture nuggets about great accordionists."--Publishers Weekly "A fascinating cultural history of the most underestimated of instruments."--Booklist "Wunnerful, wunnerful. . . . A delightful and illuminating surprise."--The Wall Street Journal  "An illuminating and occasionally whimsical account, in keeping with the instrument itself."--Library Journal"Ethnographically rich, compellingly written, and resting  on a solid theoretical and methodological foundation, Marion Jacobson's  cultural history of the accordion is a welcome addition to the extant  literature on popular music, free-reed instruments, and cultural and  diaspora studies."--Italian American Review