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Titre(s) : The accordion in the Americas [Texte imprimé] : klezmer, polka, tango, zydeco, and more! / edited by Helena Simonett
Publication : Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press, 2012
Description matérielle : 330 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection : Music in American life
Lien à la collection : Music in American life
Comprend : 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.
Note(s) : Includes Includes bibliographical references and index
Overview: 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. Imported from Europe into the
Americas, the accordion with its distinctive sound became a part of the aural landscape
for millions of people but proved to be divisive: while the accordion formed an integral
part of working-class musical expression, bourgeois commentators often derided it
as vulgar and tasteless. This rich 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 bandoneon 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. This
engaging work will be of interest to virtually everyone-but especially to scholars
and students of U.S. and African-American history and culture
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Simonett, Helena (1960-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Accordéon -- Histoire
Accordéonistes -- Amérique -- Histoire
Immigrés -- Amérique
Indice(s) Dewey :
788.86 (23e éd.) = Accordéons (instruments)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780252037207 (cloth). - ISBN 0252037200 (cloth). - ISBN 9780252078712 (pbk.).
- ISBN 0252078713 (pbk.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43790613z
Notice n° :
FRBNF43790613
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