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Author:   Helena Simonett ,  María Susana Azzi ,  Egberto Bermúdez ,  Mark DeWitt
Publisher:   University of Illinois Press
Imprint:   University of Illinois Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.680kg
ISBN:  

9780252037207

ISBN 10:   0252037200
Pages:   344
Publication Date:   28 September 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"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  "

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<p> This cultural study of the accordion makes 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

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

...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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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.

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