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 ...

and his friend would play polka tunes, and, in 1967, his son and two cousins joined him and formed a polka band, starting with gigs at the former Slovenian ... and new polka music for crowds ...

The Polish American polka blended Polish, Czech, German, Slovenian and Mexican influences ... No wonder then that also polka music became strongly associated with Polonia, otherwise known as the ...