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

Title
The accordion in the Americas [electronic resource] : klezmer, polka, tango, zydeco, and more! / edited by Helena Simonett.
Publication
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2012]

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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
  • Accordion > United States > History
  • Accordionists > United States
  • Accordion music > Social aspects > United States
  • Immigrants > United States > Music > History and criticism
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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  • 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.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Simonett, Helena.
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