From Broadway to The Bronx

Sabrina Mittermeier is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in British and North American history at the University of Kassel, Germany. She is the author of A Cultural History of Disneyland Theme Parks – Middle-Class Kingdoms (Intellect, 2021), the (co)editor of, among other volumes, Fighting for the Future – Essays on Star Trek: Discovery (Liverpool University Press, 2020), The Routledge Handbook of Star Trek (2022) and Fan Phenomena: Disney (Intellect, 2022). Her research on theme parks, film and television has also been published in several collections and journals, such as the Journal of Popular Culture and Science Fiction Film and Television.Veronika Keller is a research associate at the institute for musicology and music pedagogy at the University of Kobenz, Germany. Her research interests include (classical) music in different media and popular music in the late 20th and early 21st, mainly in the USA, Germany and South Korea as well as its transcontinental exchanges.

• Introduction Veronika Keller and Sabrina Mittermeier1. New York’s Tin Pan Alley in Two and a Half Songs: Immigrants and the New York Music Industry between the 1890s and 1910sVeronika Keller2. ‘The Milkman’s on His Way’: ‘Lullaby of Broadway’ and the Illusion of New YorkChris Flinterman3. Sweet Charity, Musical Cosmopolitanism, and New York City Nick Braae4. 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 Jeziński5. ‘I, Too, Sing New York’: Gil Scott-Heron from ‘New York City’ to ‘New York is Is Killing Me’Justin Patch6. ‘An Atmosphere Where Anything Is Allowed’: Patti Smith’s Horses and 1970s New York Punk Ryan Donovan Purcell7. No Place Like New York: Diana Ross’s ‘Home’ (1978) from The WizJaap Kooijman8. The Vibe, Vocality and Vitality of Billy Joel’s ‘New York State Of Mind’ Diane Hughes9. The Lights Are Out on the Mean Streets: Lou Reed’s ‘Dirty Blvd.’ and Inequality in New York CityStephen Petrus10. Anthrax and Public Enemy ‘Bring the Noise’: The Musical Collaboration That Helped Define aA New New York SoundBen Quail11. Forgotten No Longer: Staten Island, ‘C.R.E.A.M.’ and the Emergence of the Wu-Tang ClanBrianna 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 BeyondJames Barber13. ‘A Different Kind of Apple Now’: David Rudder’s ‘The Immigrants’ and ‘Forty- One Bullets’ Alison Mc Letchie14. ‘It Tells the Truth, and Things That Tell the Truth Tend to Last': Anthony Rapp on Jonathan Larson’s RENTSabrina Mittermeier and Anthony Rapp15. ‘Life’s Ill, Sometimes Life Might Kill’: Cannibal Ox’s The Cold VeinAlex de Lacey16. ‘North of 96th Street’: Latinx Class Mobility and In the Heights by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría HudesElena Machado Sáez17. ‘Lighters Up’: Lil’ Kim’s Ode to Brooklyn: ‘In the Concrete 181 Jungle, the Strong Stand and Rumble’Emma Horrex18. Citing the Past as a Political Resource against Donald Trump: Performing Punk and Queer Feminism in Blondie’s Music Video Doom or DestinyLene Annette Karpp Notes on ContributorsIndex