SECOND EDITION-ACCORDION AND WORLDÕS BEST CONTEMPORARY ACCORDIONISTS
Author : Maximillien de Lafayette
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 23,50 MB
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ISBN : 035977315X
Author : Maximillien de Lafayette
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 23,50 MB
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ISBN : 035977315X
Author : Times Square Press
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 723 pages
File Size : 42,71 MB
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ISBN : 0359802664
Author : Stars Illustrated Magazine. Times Square Press
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 14,93 MB
Release : 2018-12-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0359265782
WORLD'S BEST ACCORDIONISTS. A publication of Times Square Press and Stars Illustrated Magazine, New York. A world premiere book. The very first and most unique book about the best accordionists in the world. A gem.
Author : Claudio Iacomucci
Publisher :
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 48,1 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Music
ISBN : 9788895534305
Author : Marion S. Jacobson
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Page : pages
File Size : 24,11 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Accordion
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Author : Marion Jacobson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 38,63 MB
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 0252093852
No other instrument has witnessed such a dramatic rise to popularity--and precipitous decline--as the accordion. Squeeze This! is the first history of the piano accordion and the first book-length study of the accordion as a uniquely American musical and cultural phenomenon. Ethnomusicologist and accordion enthusiast Marion Jacobson traces the changing idea of the accordion in the United States and its cultural significance over the course of the twentieth century. From the introduction of elaborately decorated European models imported onto the American vaudeville stage and the instrument's celebration by ethnic musical communities and mainstream audiences alike, to the accordion-infused pop parodies by "Weird Al" Yankovic, Jacobson considers the accordion's contradictory status as both an "outsider" instrument and as a major force in popular music in the twentieth century. Drawing on interviews and archival investigations with instrument builders and retailers, artists and audiences, professionals and amateurs, Squeeze This! explores the piano accordion's role as an instrument of community identity and its varied musical and cultural environments. Jacobson concentrates on six key moments of transition: the Americanization of the piano accordion, originally produced and marketed by sales-savvy Italian immigrants; the transformation of the accordion in the 1920s from an exotic, expensive vaudeville instrument to a mass-marketable product; the emergence of the accordion craze in the 1930s and 1940s, when a highly organized "accordion industrial complex" cultivated a white, middle-class market; the peak of its popularity in the 1950s, exemplified by Lawrence Welk and Dick Contino; the instrument's marginalization in the 1960s and a brief, ill-fated effort to promote the accordion to teen rock 'n' roll musicians; and the revival beginning in the 1980s of the accordion as a "world music instrument" and a key component for cabaret and burlesque revivals and pop groups such as alternative experimenters They Might Be Giants and polka rockers Brave Combo. Loaded with dozens of images of gorgeous instruments and enthusiastic performers and fans, Squeeze This! A Cultural History of the Accordion in America represents the accordion in a wide range of popular and traditional musical styles, revealing the richness and diversity of accordion culture in America.
Author : Ronald Flynn
Publisher : Flynn Publications
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 30,20 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780962589911
Author : Angelo Paul Ramunni
Publisher : Angelo Paul Ramunni
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 33,13 MB
Release : 2018-09
Category : Accordion
ISBN : 9780976176619
The book is a compilation of the many personal stories of people who played the accordion over the last 200 years. The author purposely chose the stories that related to the experiences of everyday people as they brought their accordion into the lives of the people they encountered.
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Page : 444 pages
File Size : 26,77 MB
Release : 1955
Category : Accordion
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Author : Jonathan P. J. Stock
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Page : 141 pages
File Size : 22,11 MB
Release : 2009-01
Category : Accordion
ISBN : 9783861358176