From Broadway to The Bronx

Introduction

Veronika Keller and Sabrina Mittermeier





1. New York's Tin Pan Alley in Two and a Half Songs: Immigrants and the New York Music Industry between the 1890s and 1910s

Veronika Keller



2. 'The Milkman's on His Way': 'Lullaby of Broadway' and the Illusion of New York

Chris Flinterman



3. Sweet Charity, Musical Cosmopolitanism, and New York City

Nick Braae



4. Of Promises and Prisons: Ambivalent Visions of the Big Apple in The Last Poets' 'On the Subway' and 'New York, New York'

Martin Butler and Marek Jezinski



5. 'I, Too, Sing New York': Gil Scott-Heron from 'New York City' to 'New York is Is Killing Me'

Justin Patch



6. 'An Atmosphere Where Anything Is Allowed': Patti Smith's Horses and 1970s New York Punk

Ryan Donovan Purcell



7. No Place Like New York: Diana Ross's 'Home' (1978) from The Wiz

Jaap Kooijman



8. The Vibe, Vocality and Vitality of Billy Joel's 'New York State Of Mind'

Diane Hughes



9. The Lights Are Out on the Mean Streets: Lou Reed's 'Dirty Blvd.' and Inequality in New York City

Stephen Petrus



10. Anthrax and Public Enemy 'Bring the Noise': The Musical Collaboration That Helped Define aA New New York Sound

Ben Quail



11. Forgotten No Longer: Staten Island, 'C.R.E.A.M.' and the Emergence of the Wu-Tang Clan

Brianna Quade



12. Shinehead's 'Jamaican in New York': The Circularity of Jamaican and African American Cultural Practice and Reggae's Resonance in Hip Hop from The Bronx to Brooklyn, and Beyond

James Barber



13. 'A Different Kind of Apple Now': David Rudder's 'The Immigrants' and 'Forty- One Bullets'

Alison Mc Letchie



14. 'It Tells the Truth, and Things That Tell the Truth Tend to Last': Anthony Rapp on Jonathan Larson's RENT

Sabrina Mittermeier and Anthony Rapp



15. 'Life's Ill, Sometimes Life Might Kill': Cannibal Ox's The Cold Vein

Alex de Lacey



16. 'North of 96th Street': Latinx Class Mobility and In the Heights by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegria Hudes

Elena Machado Saez



17. 'Lighters Up': Lil' Kim's Ode to Brooklyn: 'In the Concrete 181 Jungle, the Strong Stand and Rumble'

Emma Horrex



18. Citing the Past as a Political Resource against Donald Trump: Performing Punk and Queer Feminism in Blondie's Music Video Doom or Destiny

Lene Annette Karpp







Notes on Contributors



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