The accordion in the Americas : klezmer, polka, tango, zydeco, and more! / edited by Helena Simonett.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

This collection considers the accordion and its myriad forms, from the concertina, button accordion, and piano accordion familiar in European and North American music to the exotic-sounding South American bandoneón and the sanfoninha. Capturing the instrument's spread and adaptation to many different cultures in North and South America, contributors illuminate how the accordion factored into power struggles over aesthetic values between elites and working-class people who often were members of immigrant and/or marginalized ethnic communities. Specific histories and cultural contexts discussed include the accordion in Brazil, Argentine tango, accordion traditions in Colombia, cross-border accordion culture between Mexico and Texas, Cajun and Creole identity, working-class culture near Lake Superior, the virtuoso Italian-American and Klezmer accordions, Native American dance music, and American avant-garde.

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