Well, the Grammies just got a little lamer.  They dropped the Polka award and added a "Country Music for people who think they're too good for Country Music" (aka Americana) award.  Don't get me started on the Americana business.  It's not a genre with history but rather a marketing strategy.  Don't like the pablum on country radio?  Take your ball and go home to a hipster musical ghetto to ensure the common man will never hear anything good and leave the Hoss alone to fight the good fight.  Maybe you'll get a taxpayer subsidized radio station like an idie rock fan.  Gotta love the wealthy 30-something urbanites who can get it off the backs of others.  I digress... this is supposed to be a post about Polka.  Polka is one of the grandpas of pop music.  It may be one of the few still primarily regional popular music forms left.  Plus, its never been anthropologized by the hippies.  This is just my opinion but it is a truly underappreciated gem of a genre.  There are radio stations that still dedicate time to the music.  The Grammies gave an annual award (to Jimmy Sturr) for the best polka album.  They've announced it to be discontinued.  Polka or Old-Time Music is high energy, passionate accordion and brass music for dancing and partying.  Great stuff.

        

 

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