Laura E. Kelly
Links and website that celebrates NYC's relationship with music through the years.
Why Songlines? The Aboriginal Australians were able to navigate across their harsh and unforgiving land by memorizing and following the Songlines--an intricate series of song cycles that identified the landmarks that one needed to pass to get where one needed to go.
As the nation's cultural mecca, New York City has been honored by musicians inside and outside the five boroughs. They invoke its streets and namecheck its neighborhoods in song after song. Wikipedia hosts a list of songs about New York City. It is very long, but it's not all that interesting.
Storyteller-in-chief of the website “My First Apartment NYC" (http://myfirstapartmentnyc.com), where we collect people’s stories and photos of their first apartment in New York—whether they loved i...
