AccordionBruce

A record collector died 😿 in a house on my way back from the đŸšČ shop where I had to go to get my breaks fixed

Stuck walking, I treated myself to ice cream then got some of his books on my surprisingly pleasant trip home

Also stopped at #MassyBooks, which you should visit if you’re in #Vancouver

A memorable haul!

#CasaGelato: Zesty Mandarin Chocolate / Orange Brownie sorbetto

#jazz #JazzWomen #CountryMusic #Gospel #CookBooks #Yiddish #recordcollection #vinyl #books #bikeyvr #IceCream #bike

Jul 29, 2023 at 11:53pmToot!
Show threadstudioeoinJul 30, 2023
@AccordionBruce Wonderful! Here's to #AlanLomax true folklorist & historian.
Show threadAccordionBruceJul 30, 2023

@studioeoin
I have a mock feud with the memory of Alan Lomax because he didn’t like accordions

Had a lot of fun with that in the chapter on American #FolkMusic in my book

Dearly wish I could’ve interviewed him to find out what the hell was up with his instrumental prejudice

I’d have many good questions going back to the 1930s, including one about a suspicious “worst jazz band” he saw at a Polish picnic (which might, or might not have had #accordion, but I bet you a dollar it did) đŸȘ—

Show threadstudioeoinJul 30, 2023
@AccordionBruce Whoa! I did not know this!
Poor man 😜
Show threadAccordionBruceJul 30, 2023
@studioeoin
There’s more great stuff in that chapter. It was probably the most fun to write.
Show threadstudioeoinJul 30, 2023
@AccordionBruce OK,OK,..I've ordered the book 😀 , but I feel I should have done so much earlier, just based on that awesome cover... #AccordionRevolution
Show threadAccordionBruceJul 30, 2023

@studioeoin
If you didn’t order it direct, I hope to put together a “Swag I include with books I sell” package, 📩 with stickers and a big postcard of the missing picture that got accidentally left out of the book while it was being designed 😿

(I only discovered that when I went to my first reading and was flipping through to show someone my favorite photo, and there it wasn’t đŸ˜±)

But, now I have these lovely postcards, which look better than it would have in the book đŸ€ 

If anybody’d want that

Show threadAccordionBruceJul 30, 2023

@studioeoin
I did a couple of animations of the book cover design process

Here’s one showing many images that helped inspire the cover

Then there’s another one that shows the actual evolution of the cover design itself from early sketches to the final design with various color changes in such

You can see them here on my website:
https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2019/12/04/accordion-revolution-evolution-of-a-book-cover-and-an-accordiontattoo/
#AccordionRevolution #accordion #book

Evolution of a Book Cover (and the Tale of an #AccordionTattoo)

(This page has so many animations it looks like the web in 1991.) Accordion Revolution’s book cover by Vancouver artist Michelle Clement was unveiled back in May. Michelle worked for months o


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Show threadAccordionBruceJul 30, 2023

@studioeoin
This is the animation of the cover design from early sketches on through the various color changes including her skin tone
#AccordionRevolution #Accordion #book

Http://AccordionBruce.etsy.com â€ïžâ€đŸ”„đŸȘ—

AccordionBruce - Etsy

Shop Accordion Revolution by AccordionBruce located in Vancouver, Canada. Top shop for gifts. Buyers bought gifts from this shop and gave them 5-star reviews!

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Show threadJohn LeopoldJul 30, 2023
@AccordionBruce I love Mister Jelly Roll. One of my favorite books.
Show threadAccordionBruceJul 31, 2023

@Superleopold
Mister Jelly Roll has Alan Lomax siting there talking with Louis “Big Eye” Nelson about “Charley” [sic Henry] Peyton’s Accordiona Dance Band, where the first jazz musician Buddy Bolden got his start

And Lomax and other jazz historians never bothered to ask anything else about this accordion band that kicked off all of jazz?!?

Come on! đŸȘ—â€ïžâ€đŸ”„đŸŽș đŸŽ¶

#jazz #Accordion #JazzHistory #JazzAccordion #NewOrleans #AlanLomax

Show threadJohn LeopoldJul 31, 2023
@AccordionBruce So many things he could have asked about but the discussion of Buddy Bolden started a whole wave of scholarship on that great musician. The accordion got the short shift in the conversation. 😉
Show threadAccordionBruceJul 31, 2023

@Superleopold
My book has a reoccurring theme of blues, country, and jazz researchers hearing about old relatives who played accordion, and never asking about it

As if assuming the earliest blues players’s old uncle who played accordion since the 1890s was as dismissible as the white researcher’s boring 1950s accordion lessons

So frustrating

#AccordionRevolution #accordion #jazz #blues #jazzHistory

More about my book:
Http://AccordionRevolution.com
â€ïžâ€đŸ”„đŸȘ—

Accordion Revolution: A People's History

Cover by Vancouver artist Michelle Clement ACCORDION REVOLUTION: A People’s History of the AccordionFrom the Industrial Revolution to Rock and Roll by Bruce Triggs About the Book: Accordion R


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Show thread@IanAMartin HAS MOVED!Jul 30, 2023
@AccordionBruce Is Massey Books the one downtown right on a corner, and I think the cross street is Seymour?
Show threadAccordionBruceJul 31, 2023

@IanAMartin
That’s MacCleod’s

#MassyBooks (I think I spelled that wrong before) is in Chinatown on Georgia

Indigenous owned, two stories, way more tidy then MacLeod’s đŸ˜č And they have a rare book space behind a secret door!
https://www.massybooks.com

The music #books are upstairs so not đŸŠœ accessible

Cramped overflowing MacCleod’s is even less so. We need a guide to #accessible #bookstores in #Vancouver
I think Spartacus on Commercial Drive would do pretty well 🏮 ☭
https://spartacusbooks.net

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Show threadAccordionBruceJul 31, 2023

@IanAMartin
If you look up bookstores on Google maps, it gives you a little wheelchair next to which ones claim to be accessible

If you did A Disability Guide to Vancouver’s Bookstores you could test how much of each shop that little icon applies to

All of the areas that other customers can access?

The washrooms?

Is there transit access to the shop in the first place?

That’d be a good article

#Vancouver #books #bookstores #accessibility #disability

Show thread@IanAMartin HAS MOVED!Jul 31, 2023
@AccordionBruce Right right right! New place, east of Main, west of Gore! I haven’t been in there yet! Looks swell!
Show threadAccordionBruceJul 31, 2023
@IanAMartin
They’re really nice. Supportive of many good community things
Show thread@IanAMartin HAS MOVED!Jul 31, 2023
@AccordionBruce Spartacus is all one level, but pretty narrow aisles IIRC.
Show threadAccordionBruceJul 31, 2023
@IanAMartin
I haven’t spent enough time in their new Commercial Drive location to recall. It’s more spacious than some of the former ones for sure đŸ€”