- Additional Authors
- Simonett, Helena.
- Description
- 1 online resource (330 pages) : illustrations.
- Series Statement
- Music in American life
- Uniform Title
- Accordion in the Americas (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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" : 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.
- LCCN
- 2012008976
- OCLC
- ssj0000759116
- Title
The accordion in the Americas [electronic resource] : klezmer, polka, tango, zydeco, and more! / edited by Helena Simonett.
- Imprint
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2012]
- Series
Music in American life
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Simonett, Helena.