• Background
• Accordion 101: Brief History
• Accordion 101: How It Works
• Accordion 101: Types of Accordion
• Squeezebox Stories Map
• History 1: Italian Immigration
• History 2: Creole Immigration
• History 3: Arab-Americans in California
• History 4: Mexican/Mixtec Migration

Background

Curious when the accordion was invented? Want to find out how the accordion works? You can click on “accordion 101″ icons to the left. You can learn a brief history of the instrument, its mechanics, and a wide variety of the instrument.

If you’d like to know a little bit more about the historical background that informs each of our squeezebox stories, or look at some maps to get oriented, you can click on Squeezebox Stories Map page and History pages below.