Accordion Culture

++ Articles* Marion S. Jacobson: Notes from Planet Squeezebox: The Accordion and the Process of Musical Globalization* Graeme Smith: Irish Button Accordion: From Press and Draw and Back Again* Sidney Hutchinson: Becoming the Tíguera: The Female Accordionist in Dominican Merengue Típico* Marion S. Jacobson: Valtaro Musette: Italians, Accordions, and a Pluralistic Vision of Ethnicity in New York City * Yin Yee Kwan: The Transformation of the Accordion in Twentieth-Century China * Maria Sonevytsky: The Accordion and Ethnic Whiteness: Toward a New Critical Organology++ Book Reviews (Helena Simonett, ed.)* Kelly Foreman: Tomie Hahn, Sensational Knowledge: Embodying Culture through Japanese Dance * Daniel T. Neely: Timothy Rommen, "Mek Some Noise": Gospel Music and the Ethics of Style in Trinidad * Neil Sorrell: Regula Burckhardt Qureshi, Master Musicians of India: Hereditary Sarangi Players Speak * Robert Reigle: Richard Moyle, ed., Oceanic Music Encounters: The Print Resource and the Human Resource (Essays in Honour of Mervyn McLean) * Lara Allen: David B. Coplan, In Township Tonight! South Africa's Black City Music and Theatre (second edition) ++ Recording Reviews (Dan Bendrups, ed.)* Peter G. Toner: Wurrurrumi Kun-Borrk: Songs from Western Arnhem Land. Kevin Djimarr. Sydney: SydneyUniversity Press ++ About the Contributors ++ the world of music