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• [1] Bob from Corona June 17, 2009 - 02:35PM

  What about the Beach Boys & the 4 Seasons? They were white & active before Beatles.

  
  
• [2] binky from brooklyn June 17, 2009 - 02:42PM

  If Polka is less popular (according to the Recording Academy) than Classical, then ...?

  June 5, 2009

  Polka Music Is Eliminated as Grammy Award Category

  By BEN SISARIO

  After 24 years, polka has had its last dance at the Grammys.

  The Recording Academy, which bestows the Grammy Awards, announced late on Wednesday that the polka category would be eliminated, saying in a statement that it had been cut “to ensure the awards process remains representative of the current musical landscape.”

  To many in the polka world, that read as a kind of industry code meaning that their genre — once capable of supporting artists with million-selling hits, but long since relegated to micro-niche status — had slipped off the mainstream radar entirely.

  
  
• [3] eric from jersey city June 17, 2009 - 02:46PM

  if you talk about polka, you must mention the accordian, of course...

  and what better way than to talk about a giant accordian:

  http://www.letspolka.com/2009/02/giant-accordion-on-the-loose/

  any witnessess to this wonder out there?

  
  
• [4] binky from brooklyn June 17, 2009 - 02:58PM

  You want a giant accordian?!

  Check this out!:

  http://www.bard.edu/ccs/exhibitions/museum/marclay/