HISTORY OF THE ACCORDION

Walter Maurer: Accordion: Handbuch eines Instruments, seiner historischen
	Entwicklung und seiner Literatur.  Wien : Edition Harmonia,
	c1983.

Francois Billard.  Histoires de l'accordeon / Francois Billard et
	Didier Roussin.  Castelnau-le-Lez : Climats ; [Paris] :
	Institut national de l'audiovisuel, 1991.  
 
Ronald Flynn.  The golden age of the accordion / Ronald Flynn, Edwin
	Davison, Edward Chavez.  [Schertz, Tex.] : Flynn Associates
	Pub. Co., c1992. 
	Note: From the Accordion FAQ:
	Golden Age of Accordion (book) is available from:
	Flynn Associates
	917 Antler Dr.
	Schwertz, TX 78154
	  for the price of $29.95 plus $5 S&H in US ($7 outside US)
	  and 7 1/4% sales tax if TX resident.
	I highly recommend this book.
	Lots of US piano accordion history along with many addresses.


Bernard Lasbleiz.  Boest an diaoul = La boite du diable : l'accordeon
	en pays de gavotte / enquetes, conception et redaction,
	Bernard Lasbleiz ; partitions et tablatures, Jean-Michel
	Corgeron ; suivi d'un recueil de morceaux pour accordeon
	diatonique.  Evry [France] : Anche libre ; Loudeac : Dastum,
	1987.  

Pierre Monichon.  L'Accordeon.   Paris, Presses universitaires de
	France, 1971. 

Monichon, Pierre.  Petite histoire de l'accordeon / Pierre Monichon. -
	Paris : E.G.F.P., 1958 

Javier Covo Torres.  Musica de acordeon / Covo.  [Bogota?] :
	Asociacion Carbocol Intercor, 1990. 

Bio Boccosi.  La fisarmonica italiana;   [n. p., 1963] 

Francesco Giannattasio.  L'organetto : uno strumento musicale
	contadino dell'era industriale / Francesco Giannattasio.  Roma
	: Bulzoni, [1979]  135 p.

Francis Pinguet.  Un monde musical metisse / par Francis Pinguet.
	Paris : Richard-Masse, c1984.

Werner Zintgraf.  Hugo Herrmann's Weg nach Trossingen : eine
	Dokumentation zur Reform der Musik fur Harmonika-Instrumente
	und zur Entwicklung einer "padagogischen Provinz" / Werner
	Zintgraf.  Originalausg.  Karlsruhe : Von Loeper, c1983.  

Jon Faukstad.  Ein-raderen i norsk folkemusikk : historikk, bruk og
	repertoar / Jon Faukstad.  Oslo : Universitetsforlaget, 1978
	(Larvik : Ostlandsposten)

 
The Texas-Mexican Conjunto: A History of a Working-Class Music 
Manuel Pena 
 
	Around 1930, a highly popular and distinctive type of accordion 
	music, commonly known as conjunto, emerged among Texas-Mexicans. 
        [This book] is the first comprehensive study of this unique folk  
	style.  The author's exhaustive fieldwork and personal interviews 
	with performers, disc jockeys, dance promoters, recording company 
	owners and conjunto music lovers provide the crucial connection 
	between an analysis of the music itself and the richness of the 
	culture from which it sprang.... 
 
Sardinian Chronicles 
Bernard Lortat-Jacob 
(comes with CD music sampler) 
 
	[The author] poetically evokes Sardinian music through a series 
	of encounters with individula musicians and their families. 
	Refusing to separate the music from the world in which it arises, 
	Lortat-Jacob offers twelve vignettes focused on individuals.... 
         
        Note: one of these vignettes is about an accordion player

Wagner, Christoph.  Das Akkordeon : eine wilde Karriere / Christoph
	Wagner. - Berlin : Transit, cop. 1993 ISBN 3-88747-088-5


Hubert Boone, ``Het accordeon en de voetbas in Belgi\"e''. Peters,
Leuven 1990 (ISBN 90-6831-243-X)
	This is a history of the accordion in Belgium, with loads of
	pictures, drawings, technical sketches, and even patents.
	It also describes the `voetbas', `basse au pieds' in Wallony,
	so `foot bass' in English.