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

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Simonett, Helena (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2012]
Series:	Music in American life.
Subjects:	Immigrants > United States > Music > History and criticism. Accordion music > United States > Social aspects. Accordionists > United States. Accordion > United States > History. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of 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.