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2 - Hearing Gershwin’s New York

from Part I - Historical Context

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 August 2019

By
Ellen Noonan
Edited by
Anna Harwell Celenza
Anna Harwell Celenza
Affiliation:
Georgetown University, Washington DC
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In 1898 both George Gershwin and the modern city of New York were born. On January 1, Kings and Richmond counties, along with parts of Queens and Westchester counties, officially consolidated with the island of Manhattan to create the five boroughs of New York that we know today. George Gershwin (listed on his birth certificate as Jacob Gershwine) followed nine months later, entering the world at 242 Snedicker Avenue in Brooklyn on September 26. Gershwin grew to manhood in and with a burgeoning city full of noise, invention, and endless entertainments, whose disparate ethnic neighborhoods retained a character all their own even as they were being knit together in new ways.

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The Cambridge Companion to Gershwin , pp. 16 - 28
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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