The accordion in the Americas: klezmer, polka, tango, zydeco, and more!

Introduction / Helena Simonett

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 la-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 L 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 F Zinni

Klezmer accordion: an outsider among outsiders / Joshua Horowitz

Beyond Vallenato: the accordion traditions in Colombia / Egberto Bermudez

Hellish instrument: the story of the tango bandoneon / Maria Susana Azzi

No ma' se oye el fuinfuan: the noisy accordion in the Dominican Republic / Sydney Hutchinson

Between the folds of Luiz Gonzaga's sanfona: forro music in Brazil / Megwen Loveless

Accordion in new scores: paradigms of authorship and identity in William Schimmel's musical "realities" / Marion S Jacobson

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