@paul_ipv6 @molenaar @skyfire747 @mykie @why2025camp
Through my #AccordionRevolution history project, over and over new technology drove shifts in instrumentation more than audiences taste or “desire to hear new things”

Musicians want to be heard and get paid (or the equivalent 🥖)

So whatever made the music 1. Easier to play, 2. Louder, and 3. Cheaper, almost always “caught on with audiences”

@tuftyindigo
I keep telling Jared to write a book with his research on the Black #accordion

He’s looked for a publisher with no luck 😤

The “African Americans Played Accordions Before they Played the Blues” chapter in my #AccordionRevolution book is basically stolen from his work

Having read more history of #blues antecedents before the guitar I’d add more footnotes to that clever chapter title than it already has, but there it is 🙄

@venya
There’s a fine recommendation!

You could get my book #AccordionRevolution which was not written by AI and will teach you more than that article

http://AccordionRevolution.com

Or since it’s #BandcampFriday grab some of our hundreds of #AccordionBandcamp recommendations and support living artists ❤️‍🔥🪗

@toddsundsted
Yes, there was a while around 2000–2010 when the 🪗 was on its last big “uprising”

When our show started (2006) and I began writing my #AccordionRevolution book that ended up taking until 2019 😅

The #Decemberists hit #1 in 2010🏆 Then what happened? Not sure.

We’re maybe due for a renewal in time for the 2029 bicentennial of the 1829 patenting of the first instrument called #accordion