"The Accordion Is Not a Punchline"
The maligned old squeezebox and its nearest relatives are indispensable to countless types of music, from Mexico to Ireland to Argentina to Louisiana to France to South Africa - not to forget polka, of course. Why does the accordion get no respect? Pauline Oliveros, doyenne of experimental composers and possibly the world's first avant-garde accordionist, has some ideas. The Globe and Mail (Canada) 09/06/10

Posted September 6, 2010 09:42 PM