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Definition of Tin pan alley
1. Noun. A city district (originally in New York) where composers and publishers of popular music do business.
Definition of Tin pan alley
1. Proper noun. The songwriting and publishing industry. ¹
2. Proper noun. District in New York City centered on 28th Street during the period roughly from 1885 to the 1920's where thousands of popular songs were commercially written. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tin Pan Alley
Literary usage of Tin pan alley
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Jazz Standards on Record, 1900-1942: A Core Repertory by Richard Crawford, Jeffrey Magee (1992)
"In the next five years (1925-29), Broadway gained somewhat on tin pan alley in
producing new jazz standards, while rags and new blues songs dropped out of ..."
2. Jazz on Film and Video in the Library of Congress by Rebecca D. Clear (1994)
"FCA 1527 An appraisal of music in America from tin pan alley, swing, jazz, concert
and symphonic music taken from the 1946 re-issue of March of Time. ..."
3. The Popular Theatre by George Jean Nathan (1918)
"... to Broadway than there is for the typical American writer of typical American
songs to bring Verlaine and Swinburne to tin-pan alley. ..."
4. The Theatre of Science: A Volume of Progress and Achievement in the Motion by Robert Grau (1914)
"If Harris should enter the musical film field on a large scale, as now seems
likely, his procedure will be watched by his confrères of "tin-pan alley" with ..."
5. The Theatre of Science: A Volume of Progress and Achievement in the Motion by Robert Grau (1914)
"If Harris should enter the musical film field on a large scale, as now seems
likely, his procedure will be watched by his confreres of "tin-pan alley" with ..."
6. The Business Man in the Amusement World: A Volume of Progress in the Field by Robert Grau (1910)
"Mr. Harris started modestly in West 28th Street, where "Tin- pan Alley" got its
name; then he moved to West 31st Street, to larger quarters; ..."
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