The accordion in the Americas
Subtitle: klezmer, polka, tango, zydeco, and more!
By: edited by Helena Simonett
Series: Music in American life
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780252037207; 9780252078712
Subjects: Immigrants; Accordion; Accordion music; History and criticism; Accordionists; Social aspects; Music; History
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: From old world to new shores / Helena Simonett; title: Accordion jokes : a folklorist's view / Richard March; title: From chanky-chank to Yankee chanks : the Cajun accordion as identity symbol / Mark DeWitt; title: Garde ici et garde lá-bas : Creole accordion in Louisiana / Jared Snyder; title: "Tejano and proud" : the accordion traditions of South Texas and the border region / Cathy Ragland; title: Preserving territory : the changing language of the accordion in Tohono O'odham waila music / Janet Sturman; title: Accordions and working-class culture along Lake Superior's South Shore / James P. Leary; title: Play me a tarantella, a polka, or jazz : Italian Americans and the currency of piano accordion music / Christine Zinni; title: The klezmer accordion : an outsider among outsiders / Joshua Horowitz; title: Beyond Vallenato : the accordion traditions in Colombia / Egberto Bermúdez; title: "A hellish instrument" : the story of the tango bandoneón / Mara Susana Azzi; title: No ma' se oye el fuinfuán : the noisy accordion in the Dominican Republic / Sydney Hutchinson; title: Between the folds of Luiz Gonzaga's sanfona : forré music in Brazil / Megwen Loveless; title: The accordion in new scores : paradigms of authorship and identity in William Schimmel's musical "realities" / Marion Jacobson.