From Broadway to the Bronx : New York City's History Through Song / edited by Veronika Keller and Sabrina Mittermeier.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Keller, Veronika, editor.

Mittermeier, Sabrina, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--New York (State)--New York--19th century--History and criticism.

Music.

Music--New York (State)--New York--20th century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, England : Intellect, [2024]

Summary:

A fascinating and vibrant depiction of New York City in song across a variety of different genres, focusing on Broadway, musical theatre, hip hop, punk, folk, and jazz genres, as well as the work of New York born artists and those who are intimately connected with the city.

Contents:

Cover

From Broadway to the Bronx: New York City’s History through Song

Copyright

Contents

Introduction

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

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

3. Sweet Charity, Musical Cosmopolitanism and New York City

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Anthrax and Public Enemy ‘Bring the Noise’: The Musical Collaboration That Helped Define a New New York Sound

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Notes on Contributors

Index

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ISBN:

9781789389920

1789389925

9781789389913

1789389917