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The Accordion in the Americas : Klezmer, Polka, Tango, Zydeco, and More! /

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 di...

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Détails bibliographiques
Autres auteurs: Simonett, Helena (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2012]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • 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 : forre music in Brazil / Megwen Loveless
  • The accordion in new scores : paradigms of authorship and identity in William Schimmel's musical "realities" / Marion S. Jacobson.