from broadway to the bronx: new york city’s history through song

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.

Veronika Keller is a postdoctoral research associate at the Institute for Musicology and Music Pedagogy at the University of Koblenz, Germany. She has published several articles about the German-United States musical transfer and music in different media. 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 several books, including A Cultural History of Disneyland Theme Parks: Middle-Class Kingdoms and Fan Phenomena: Disney, also published by Intellect.