That was the early 1950s, just in the wake of Frankie Yankovic's having made the Slovenian style of polka one of the most popular forms of music in Wisconsin. By the 1960s, the Verne Meisner Band ...

Rinaldi, who is American, also calls polka a dance ‘most closely associated with Poland ... You also find that ‘they were trained in theory and the classics, as well as in jazz, voice, and the popular ...