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Tin Pan Alley: An Encyclopedia of the Golden Age of American Song

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2003
ISBN
9780415938778, 0415938775, 0203502469, 9780203502464, 9780203603321
Open Library ID
OL7496821M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7124386 bytes)
Edition
New edition
Pages
384\487
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-04-28 18:43:47

Description

For nearly a century, New York's famous ''Tin Pan Alley'' was the center of popular music publishing in this country. It was where songwriting became a profession, and songs were made-to-order for the biggest stars. Selling popular music to a mass audience from coast-to-coast involved the greatest entertainment media of the day, from minstrelsy to Broadway, to vaudeville, dance palaces, radio, and motion pictures. Successful songwriting became an art, with a host of men and women becoming famous by writing famous songs.

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