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09-Nov-2012
by Rob Howard
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 Following the success of Marion Jacobson’s ‘Squeeze This! A Cultural History of the Accordion in America’, the University of Illinois Press has now published Helena Simonett’s edited volume ‘The Accordion in the Americas: Klezmer, Polka, Tango, Zydeco, and More!’ The book includes chapters on accordion culture in South Texas, Columbia, the Dominican Republic, Brazil, and other locations in North and South America. Contributors are María Susana Azzi, Egberto Bermúdez, Mark DeWitt, Joshua Horowitz, Sydney Hutchinson, Marion Jacobson, James P. Leary, Megwen Loveless, Richard March, Cathy Ragland, Helena Simonett, Jared Snyder, Janet L. Sturman, and Christine F. Zinni. 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, Nashville, Tennessee. Library Journal published a review calling ‘The Accordion in the Americas’, “…an excellent collection of ethnomusicology scholarship that will be of interest to those who like world music, ethnography, or unusual instruments”. For further information email: orders@press.uchicago.edu |