See also: Haversack

The haversack is the musical genre whose the orchestras of haversack or popular dance play. It gathers the musical genres quoted hereafter, but only when that they are played in the style accordion music. Indeed, the differences in style are important enters, for example, the Viennese waltz and the waltz haversack or the Tango haversack and the Argentinian tango.

At the 18th century, the haversack is a dance of theater to the Tempo slow and soft to 2 or 3 times.

Then at the 19th century, its direction changed and it became a Bal in which one dances with the sound of the Cornemuse or the haversack auvergnate, from where its name of “ball to the haversack”.

It is at the 20th century that the accordion supplants the Cabrette and that the Valse détrône the Bourrée. In its modern direction, it is a popular Bal where one Danse generally with the sound of the Accordéon on various musical genres, java, Valse, Tango, Paso doble, Madison, Fox-trot. One speaks about Valse haversack.

The current orchestras of accordion music are generally composed of amplified instruments, like the Guitare, the Accordéon, the low electric one, the keyboard or the synthetizer, of a battery and a singer.

Artists of the accordion music

• Pleasant
• Yvette Horner
• Tony Murena
• Michel and Louis Peguri
• Charles Peguri
• Georgette Planed
• Primitive future
• OJ Privat
• Emile Vacher
• André Verchuren
• Gus Viseur
• Claude Martin (site)
• André Poirrier (saxophonist) (site)

External bonds

• http://perso.wanadoo.fr/musette.info/
• http://perso.wanadoo.fr/musette.info/FRHM-Histoire.htm
• http://www.guinguette.org/bals/musette.html
• http://www.ultradanse.com/generalites/index.php3?page=valsemusette
• http://membres.lycos.fr/accordeon/junior/comprendre/musette2.html
• http://swingjo.apinc.org
• http://accordeon62.free.fr
• http://www.editions-stan.com
• http://www.mambo-musette.fr