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Author
Series
Tales from Deckawoo Drive volume 4
Language
English
Description
"When an unexpected package containing an accordion arrives, Eugenia Lincoln tries to get rid of the instrument by selling it, destroying it, and giving it away, but nothing works"--OCLC.
Author
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rarely has a literary novel so captured the hearts and minds of readers across America and the world as E. Annie Proulx's The Shipping News, winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Now we have Proulx's new novel, Accordion Crimes, a masterpiece of storytelling that spans a century and a continent. Accordion Crimes opens in 1890 in Sicily as an accordion maker completes his finest instrument and dreams of owning a music store in America....
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Overview: An invention of the Industrial Revolution, the accordion provided the less affluent with an inexpensive, loud, portable, and durable "one-man-orchestra" capable of producing melody, harmony, and bass all at once. Imported from Europe into the Americas, the accordion with its distinctive sound became a part of the aural landscape for millions of people but proved to be divisive: while the accordion formed an integral part of working-class...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A boy who enjoys music and fun at his grandparents' homes ends the quiet in his own by persuading his grandfathers, who immigrated from different countries, to get out their accordions and play. Includes author's note about his own immigrant grandparents.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"This complete guide to learning traditional Irish button accordion will get you started playing tunes right away. You'll learn how to hold the accordion and sound your first scales, bass notes, chords and arpeggios. John Williams teaches you five traditional Irish tunes, breaking them into easy-to-learn sections and demonstrating each one at both slow and moderate tempos so you can play along with him."--Container.
Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Explores vallenato music, a rocking blues which evolved out of the marijuana-growing regions of Columbia. It is a hot, jumpy dance music which mixes accordians, electric bass, percussion and open-throated singing. Vallenato absorbed the local traditions from the vibrantly rhythmic, African-rooted cumbia music to the traditional flute music of various Indian peoples to become the soundtrack for the wide-open lifestyle of gambling and carousing fueled...
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