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Oct 14, 2022 · Decades before the twirling, hip-shaking grooves of salsa music exploded into a global phenomenon, it emerged from the glitzy New York mambo clubs in the 1940s and 1950s and made its way to...
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This history of music in NYC timeline highlights some of the significant moments in the development of, possibly, the most diverse musical city in human history. This timeline is a work in progress, only showing a small portion of the highlights of New York City music history.
The music of New York City is a diverse and important field in the world of music. It has long been a thriving home for popular genres such as jazz, rock, soul music, R&B, funk, and the urban blues, as well as classical and art music. It is the birthplace of hip hop, garage house, boogaloo, doo wop, bebop, punk rock, disco, and new wave.
The City of New York operates a public broadcast service, NYC Media, that produces several original New York Emmy Award-winning shows covering music and culture in city neighborhoods, as well as city government-access television (GATV).
Salsa music. The September Concert. Sinatra – The Main Event (TV program) Slapshot (song) Streets of New York (album)
Mar 23, 2014 · What follows is not the history of popular music in New York, but a history — an impressionistic, anecdotal, suggestive, but by definition incomplete survey of the past 100 years of New York pop
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History of New York City. Manhattan in 1873, looking north. The Hudson River is at left. The Brooklyn Bridge across the East River (at right) was built from 1870 to 1883. The written history of New York City began with the first European explorer, the Italian Giovanni da Verrazzano in 1524.
