Squeeze This!: A Cultural History of the Accordion in America

by Marion Jacobson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252036751
• ISBN13: 9780252036750
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.4"