No other instrument has witnessed such a dramatic rise to popularity--and precipitous decline--as the accordion. "Squeeze This " is the first history of the piano accordion and the first book-length study of the accordion as a uniquely American musical and cultural phenomenon.Ethnomusicologist and accordion enthusiast Marion Jacobson traces the changing idea of the accordion in the United States and its cultural significance over the course of the twentieth century. From the introduction of elaborately decorated European models imported onto the American vaudeville stage and the instrument's...