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United States

Accordions are played in Tejano music, Cajun and Creole music, zydeco, klezmer, and polka.

During the post-World War II era from the 1940s to the 1960s, accordions were widely used in the United States for performances of traditional Western classical music within the configuration of large free-reed symphonic orchestras both in live performances on the concert hall stage and in phonograph recordings.