Editing Accordion (section)

===Use in popular music===
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{{See also|List of popular music acts that incorporate the accordion}}
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The accordion appeared in [[popular music]] from the 1900s to the 1960s. This half-century is often called the "golden age of the accordion".<ref name="Jacobson">{{cite book|last1=Jacobson|first1=Marion|title=Squeeze This: A Cultural History of the Accordion in America|date=2012|publisher=University of Illinois|isbn=978-0252093852|page=174|url=http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/47bqd8bm9780252036750.html|access-date=10 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160331151241/http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/47bqd8bm9780252036750.html|archive-date=31 March 2016}}</ref> Five players, [[Pietro Frosini]], the two brothers Count [[Guido Deiro]] and [[Pietro Deiro]] and Slovenian brothers Vilko Ovsenik and [[Slavko Avsenik]], Charles Magnante were major influences at this time.<ref name="SloveniaGrieving">{{cite web|title=Slovenia is Grieving for the Legendary Musician Slavko Avsenik|url=http://www.slovenia.si/visit/news/n/slovenia-is-grieving-for-the-legendary-musician-slavko-avsenik/|website=Slovenia.si|access-date=10 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150921060458/http://www.slovenia.si/visit/news/n/slovenia-is-grieving-for-the-legendary-musician-slavko-avsenik/|archive-date=21 September 2015|date=8 July 2015}}</ref>

Most [[vaudeville]] theaters closed during the [[Great Depression]], but accordionists during the 1930s–1950s taught and performed for radio. Included among this group was the concert virtuoso [[John Serry, Sr.]]<ref>''The Los Angeles Examiner''  9 October 1938, p. 1</ref><ref>Jacobson, Marion (2012). ''Squeeze This: A Cultural History of the Accordion in America''. University of Illinois Press, Chicago, p. 61. {{ISBN|978-0-252-03675-0}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=A Pictorial History of Radio|last=Settel|first=Irving|publisher=[[Grosset & Dunlap]]|location=New York|orig-year=1960|year=1967|page=146|lccn=67-23789|oclc=1475068}}</ref> During the 1950s through the 1980s the accordion received significant exposure on television with performances by [[Myron Floren]] on ''[[The Lawrence Welk Show]]''.<ref>Myron Floren and Randee Floren, ''Accordion Man'', with a foreword by Lawrence Welk (The Stephen Greene Press, Brattleboro, Vermont: 1981)</ref> In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the accordion declined in popularity because of the rise of rock and roll.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Kafka|first=Alexander|year=2012|title=Accordion File|journal=The Chronicle of Higher Education|via=Proquest}}</ref> The first accordionist to appear and perform at the Newport Jazz Festival was Angelo DiPippo. He can be seen playing his accordion in the motion picture ''The Godfather''. He also composed and performed with his accordion on part of the soundtrack of Woody Allen's movie ''To Rome With Love''. He was featured twice on ''The Tonight Show'' with Johnny Carson.

[[Richard Galliano]] is an internationally known accordionist whose repertoire covers jazz, tango nuevo, Latin, and classical. Some popular bands use the instrument to create distinctive sounds. A notable example is [[Grammy Award|Grammy Award–winning]] [[Parody music|parodist]] [["Weird Al" Yankovic]], who plays the accordion on many of his musical tracks, particularly his [[polka]]s. Yankovic was trained in the accordion as a child.<ref name="GraffDurchholz2012">{{cite book|last1=Graff|first1=Gary|last2=Durchholz|first2=Daniel|title=Rock 'n' Roll Myths: The True Stories Behind the Most Infamous Legends|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JWlSUYbiUXUC&pg=PT152|year=2012|publisher=MBI Publishing Company|isbn=978-1-61058-571-2|page=152}}</ref>

The accordion has also been used in the rock genre, most notably by [[John Linnell]] of [[They Might Be Giants]], featuring more prominently in the band's earlier works.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://tmbw.net/wiki/Accordion|title=Accordion – TMBW: The They Might Be Giants Knowledge Base|website=tmbw.net|language=en|access-date=10 June 2018}}</ref> The instrument is still frequently used during live performances, and continues to make appearances in their studio albums. Accordion is also used in the music of the [[Dropkick Murphys]] and [[Gogol Bordello]]. [[Tom Waits]] used the accordion extensively (often played by Dr. William Schimmel) on his album ''[[Rain Dogs]]'' and ''[[Franks Wild Years]]''.{{cn|date=April 2025}} The [[folk metal]] subgenre also employs accordionists, but they are otherwise generally rare in other genres. Full-time accordionists in folk metal seem even rarer, but they are still utilized for studio work, as flexible keyboardists are usually more accessible for live performances. The Finnish symphonic folk-metal band [[Turisas]] used to have a full-time accordionist, employing classical and polka sensibilities alongside a violinist. One of their accordionists, [[Netta Skog]], is now a member of [[Ensiferum]], another folk-metal band. Another Finnish metal band, [[Korpiklaani]], invokes a type of Finnish polka called [[humppa]], and also has a full-time accordionist. Sarah Kiener, the former [[hurdy-gurdy]] player for the Swiss melodic-death-folk metal band [[Eluveitie]], played a [[Helvetic Republic|Helvetic]] accordion known as a ''zugerörgeli''.{{Citation needed|date=January 2020}}