It seems like there must be more to the story than this.
I have no reason to doubt that using a local accordion-based flavor of music as a medium for trash-talking your opponents is in fact occurring, along with some cycles of retributive violence partially mediated by such trash-talking; but I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a cycle of violence that’s primed and ready to go but hampered by absence of a ready means of transmitting insults; or a ready means of transmitting insults so cutting that it leads directly to a deadly cycle of retributive violence.
Does anyone know what the background is in terms of recruitment, motivation, economic incentives of the formal and informal sector, that sort of thing?
So what happens if a member of the accordion gang travels to Mexico and encounters a member of the Mariachi gang? Could be another Robert Rodriguez film.
I grew up being forced to hear polka music all the time, so I had a grudge against the accordion, took me years to appreciate that it’s a pretty cool instrument (when you’re not playing cornball shit like “Who Stole The Kishka” all the time.)
I really wanted this to be a happy story of how people who used to be gangsters learned to fight their battles via accordion… sadly, it’s the exact opposite.
yes this in “fact” (don’t quote me on that) an organized accordion gang. their racketeering is composed of protection money (ie being paid not to play regular sets in front of local businesses) . they also arrange local “hits” made to look like accidents which are usually subcontracted out to the local piano gang. part of their success is believed to be due to their business dealings being carried out under the cover of a weekly “music” Jam which authorities have refused to listen in on .
