The accordion in the Americas [[electronic resource] ] : klezmer, polka, tango, zydeco, and more! / / edited by Helena Simonett
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The accordion in the Americas [[electronic resource] ] : klezmer, polka, tango, zydeco, and more! / / edited by Helena Simonett
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| Pubblicazione: | Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, [2012] |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource |
| Disciplina: | 788.8/6097 |
| Soggetto topico: | Accordion - United States - History |
| Accordionists - United States | |
| Accordion music - Social aspects - United States | |
| Immigrants - United States - Music - History and criticism | |
| Altri autori: |
SimonettHelena
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| Note generali: | Includes index. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | An invention of the Industrial Revolution, the accordion provided the less affluent with an inexpensive, loud, portable, and durable 'one-man-orchestra' capable of producing melody, harmony, and bass all at once. This collection considers the accordion and its myriad forms. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The accordion in the Americas |
| ISBN: | 1-283-71262-8 |
| 0-252-09432-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910786362903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Music in American Life