The Beat of New York: Visual History of Music in the City Manuscripts

The Beat of New York: Visual History of Music in the City ManuscriptsListen, and you will hear it: the beat of New York City. It's everywhere you go! From the subways to the streets, from parks to bars, from churches to concert halls. Music in all its glorious forms, sometimes sublime and sometimes spectacular, is a vital part of city life and has been for centuries. Whether a pair of dueling drummers on 42nd Street or break dancers in Washington Square Park, a mural in the Village or a memorial to John LennonNew

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Beatrix Potter’s universe of characters—Peter Rabbit

and from Langston Hughes’s Harlem to James Merrill’s Upper East Side

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and vivid epochs in American history

in which the artist freely mixed artworks and objects from the Morgan Library & Museum’s famed collections

whose existence gives us clues about the beginnings of Christianity in England

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