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The Social Life Of Musical Instruments, Eliot Bates Jan 2012

The Social Life Of Musical Instruments, Eliot Bates

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Accordion Crimes, a novel by E. Annie Proulx, traces the life of and routes travelled by a green diatonic button accordion: its birth in Sicily in the workshop of “The Accordion Maker,” its numerous changes of ownership in the Americas during encounters between various immigrant communities, and its death when it finally falls into disrepair in the town of Old Glory, Minnesota. There are other accordions in the book, and many temporary human owners, but it is one particular green accordion that is the book’s protagonist. We meet and experience other characters largely through their interactions with the green accordion, …


Junior Recital: Parker Otwell Roe, Department Of Music, University Of Richmond Apr 2003

Junior Recital: Parker Otwell Roe, Department Of Music, University Of Richmond

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