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 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 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 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