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For one thing, there’s the music: thumping polkas with a wheezing accordion.

From New York Times • Nov. 15, 2022

Germans who settled in Texas and northern Mexico in the 1850s brought infectiously danceable polkas played on button accordions — and helped birth regional Tex-Mex styles.

From Seattle Times • May 20, 2022

The sets hold a dismaying amount of dreck, yet Day applied the same conviction and believability to everything from the cheesiest polkas to Harold Arlen.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2019

The crowd claps and cheers as they perform Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, waltzes and polkas by Johann Strauss, and Eritrea's national anthem.

From BBC • Jun. 21, 2016

I sift through old 78 polkas with beribboned women smiling at me from the album covers.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García