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Introduction 1
HELENA SIMONETT
Chapter 1 From Old World to New
Shores 19
HELENA SIMONETT
Chapter 2 Accordion Jokes: A Folklorist's
View 39
RICHARD MARCH
Chapter 3 From Chanky-Chank to Yankee Chanks:
The Cajun Accordion as Identity Symbol 44
MARK F. DeWITT
Chapter 4 'Garde ici et 'garde la-bas: Creole
Accordion in Louisiana 66
JARED SNYDER
Chapter 5 "Tejano and Proud": Regional Accordion
Traditions of South Texas and the Border Region 87
CATHY RAGLAND
Chapter 6 Preserving Territory: The Changing
Language of the Accordion in Tohono O'odham Waila Music
112
JANET L. STURMAN
Chapter 7 Accordions and Working-Class Culture
along Lake Superior's South Shore 136
JAMES P. LEARY
Chapter 8 Play Me a Tarantella, a Polka, or
Jazz: Italian Americans and the Currency of Piano-Accordion
Music 156
CHRISTINE F. ZINNI
Chapter 9 The Klezmer Accordion: An Outsider
among Outsiders 178
JOSHUA HOROWITZ
Chapter 10 Beyond Vallenato: The Accordion Traditions in
Colombia 199
EGBERTO BERMUDEZ
Chapter 11 "A Hellish Instrument": The Story of the Tango
Bandoneon 233
MARIA SUSANA AZZI
Chapter 12 No ma'se oye el fuinfuan: The Noisy Accordion in
the Dominican Republic 249
SYDNEY HUTCHINSON
Chapter 13 Between the Folds of Luiz Gonzaga's Sanfona:
Forro Music in Brazil 268
MEGWEN LOVELESS
Chapter 14 The Accordion in New Scores: Paradigms of
Authorship and Identity in William Schimmel's Musical
"Realities" 295
MARION S. JACOBSON
Glossary 315
Contributors 319
Index 323
The accordion in the new world
Helena Simonett is an assistant professor of Latin American studies, associate director of the Center for Latin American Studies, and adjunct assistant professor in the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Banda: Mexican Musical Life Across Borders.
"As we as the traditions mentioned in her subtitle, Helena Simonett's welcome addition to the meagre academic literature on the accordion includes detailed essays on Cajun music, conjunto and meringue among others... The Accordion in the Americas offers a history rich in insights drawn from the complex intertwining of society, race and culture in American music-making." - Frank Bruce, Times Literary Supplement, June 28th 2013 "...an excellent collection of ethnomusicology scholarship that will be of interest to those who like world music, ethnography, or unusual instruments." Library Journal "A major contribution to understanding the instrument's important social function within different ethnic cultures. The impressive group of contributors illuminates the importance of studying mass culture and indicates the accordion's enduring significance to many cultural and personal identities." Victor R. Greene, author of A Singing Ambivalence: American Immigrants between Old World and New, 1830-1930
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