New. From Broadway to The Bronx: New York City’s History through Song
- Author: Keller, Veronika
- Author: Mittermeier, Sabrina
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$135.25Contents
- 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 Jeziński
- 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 Tthat 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 Alegría Hudes
- Elena Machado Sáez
- 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
- Index