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Contents

• 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
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• Notes on Contributors
• Index