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Squeeze This! A Cultural History of the Accordion in America. By Marion Jacobson. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2012. - The Accordion in the Americas: Klezmer, Polka, Tango, Zydeco, and More! Edited by Helena Simonett. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2012.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2015

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1 In the United States, the prestigious National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts has been awarded to accordionists working in a number of traditions: the zydeco masters Clifton Chenier (1984) and “Queen” Ida Guillory (2009); the Finnish-American player Art Moilanen (1990); the Cajun musician Marc Savoy (1992); the Irish-American performer Joe Derrane (2004); and the Tejano artists Domingo “Mingo” Saldivar (2002), Santiago Jiménez Jr. (2000), and Jiménez Jr.'s brother, Leonardo “Flaco” Jiménez (2012).