Read e-book online Squeeze This!: A Cultural History of the Accordion in PDF

By Marion Jacobson

The piano accordion skilled a curler coaster experience of popularity--rise to status at the airwaves, degree and silver display, then a deathly decline, via a popular culture resurgence. Squeeze This! rolls out a background of the squeezebox with the 1st book-length examine of its attention-grabbing position in twentieth-century American song and culture.

Focusing on key moments of transition, ethnomusicologist and accordion fanatic Marion Jacobson indicates how the software got here to be celebrated via ethnic musical groups and mainstream lovers alike. She additionally explores the accordion's rebirth in modern track, from the parodies of "Weird Al" Yankovic to geek rock legends they may Be Giants to accordion-wielding superstars like Bruce Springsteen and Sheryl Crow.

Loaded with pictures of beautiful tools, virtuoso performers, and rabid fanatics, Squeeze This! provides the untold tale of America's wealthy accordion culture.

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