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Title:
The accordion in the Americas : klezmer, polka, tango, zydeco, and more! / edited by Helena Simonett.
Publisher:
University of Illinois Press,
Copyright Date:
c2012
Description:
330 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Subject:
Accordion--United States--History.
Accordionists--United States.
Accordion music--Social aspects--United States.
Immigrants--United States--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Accordion--Latin America--History.
Other Authors:
Simonett, Helena, editor.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The accordion in new scores : paradigms of authorship and identity in William Schimmel's musical "realities" / Marion S. Jacobson. 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" : regional 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 / Maria 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 S. Jacobson.
Series:
Music in American life
ISBN:
0252078713 (pbk.)
9780252078712 (pbk.)
0252037200 (cloth)
9780252037207 (cloth)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)779740384
LCCN:
2012008976
Locations:
UXAX826 -- St. Ambrose University Library (Davenport)
PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)
PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

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