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      Polka Resources
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Books
For children, baby to preK

  • Karen Beaumont, Jennifer Plecas (illus.), Baby Danced the Polka

For adults

  • Keith Maillard, The Clarinet Polka: A Novel
  • Annie Proulx, Accordion Crimes (use critically—artistic license w/cultural information)
  • Lawrence Welk, Lawrence Welk's Polka Folio
  • Victor Greene, A Passion for Polka: Old-Time Ethnic Music in America
  • Charles Keil, Angeliki Vellou Keil, Dick Blau (photogr.), Polka Happiness
  • Lori Runkle and Friends, American Polka
  • Suzanne Strempek Shea, Hoopi Shoopi Donna

Films & Videos:

  • Les Blank, "In Heaven there is No Beer" --Polish-American Polka
  • "Del Mero Corazon" and "Chulas Frontieras" --Mexican polka, Flower Films, El Cerrito, CA
  • Public Television Productions
  • "Polka from Cuca" (1994) and "Polka 2000" (1999) from Wisconsin Public TV and Ootek Productions
  • "Frank Yankovic: America's Polka King" (1995) Lakeview Productions, dist. by Kultur, West Long Branch, NJ
  • "Polka Passion" (2002) Nebraska Educational TV and GPN, Lincoln, NE

Music

  • “Golden Horns on Green Fields: Czech Polka Music from the Heartland” (cd)
  • Malek’s Fishmen Band, “Fired Up for a Polka” (cd)
  • Becky & The Ivanhoe Dutchmen, “Ach Ja!!” Vol. 5 (cd)
  • Becky & The Ivanhoe Dutchmen, “Heart to heart” (cd)
  • Becky & The Ivanhoe Dutchmen, “Barefoot Becky – Collections”
  • Becky & The Ivanhoe Dutchmen, “Just Like Mama Raised Me”
  • Becky & The Ivanhoe Dutchmen, “Czech It Out!!!”
  • Becky & The Ivanhoe Dutchmen, “Me & The Guys”
  • Becky & The Ivanhoe Dutchmen, “Barefoot Becky Presents”
  • Becky & The Ivanhoe Dutchmen, “The Terry & Becky Show:
    If Dey Wan' It...Give It to Dem!”
  • Los Polkeros De Ben Tavera King, “Border Bash” (cd)
  • “Deep Polka” (cd)
  • “Deeper Polka” (cd)

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