Tin Pan Alley
Tin Pan Alley is the name that is given to the group of musical artists and producers of New York during the 19th and 20th century. The name was, at first, given to a specific location in New York. Tin Pan Alley was located between West 28th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenue in Manhattan. Tin Pan Alley is said to have gotten its name from the collective sound of the pianos all playing different tunes at the same time. This was said to sound like tin pans being banged together in an alleyway. There is now a plaque on the sidewalk on 28th Street between Broadway and Sixth that commemorates the historical location. Tin Pan Alley is said to come about somewhere around the year 1885. A number of publishers started building their businesses in the same location of Manhattan. The time period in which Tin Pan Alley ended is unsure. Some say that it ended at the beginning of the Great Depression in the 1930s, when radio replaced sheet music as the driving force of American popular music. Others would say that Tin Pan Alley continued into the 1950s when earlier styles of American popular music were brought about such as rock and roll music. …show more content…
Isidore Witmark was selling water filters. Leo Feist sold corsets, and Joe Stern and Edward B. Marks had sold neckties and buttons. The music houses in Manhattan had a steady flow of different types of musicians. There were people from vaudeville and broadway shows and other musicians constantly coming and going. Up and coming songwriters often came to Tin Pan Alley with the hope of selling their sheet music to the big time producers. Usually all rights to the songs were bought for a flat price. Songwriters who became established producers of successful songs were hired to be on the staff of the music houses. The most successful of them, like Harry Von Tilzer and Irving Berlin founded their own publishing
Tin Pan Alley is the name that is given to the group of musical artists and producers of New York during the 19th and 20th century. The name was, at first, given to a specific location in New York. Tin Pan Alley was located between West 28th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenue in Manhattan. Tin Pan Alley is said to have gotten its name from the collective sound of the pianos all playing different tunes at the same time. This was said to sound like tin pans being banged together in an alleyway. There is now a plaque on the sidewalk on 28th Street between Broadway and Sixth that commemorates the historical location. Tin Pan Alley is said to come about somewhere around the year 1885. A number of publishers started building their businesses in the same location of Manhattan. The time period in which Tin Pan Alley ended is unsure. Some say that it ended at the beginning of the Great Depression in the 1930s, when radio replaced sheet music as the driving force of American popular music. Others would say that Tin Pan Alley continued into the 1950s when earlier styles of American popular music were brought about such as rock and roll music. …show more content…
Isidore Witmark was selling water filters. Leo Feist sold corsets, and Joe Stern and Edward B. Marks had sold neckties and buttons. The music houses in Manhattan had a steady flow of different types of musicians. There were people from vaudeville and broadway shows and other musicians constantly coming and going. Up and coming songwriters often came to Tin Pan Alley with the hope of selling their sheet music to the big time producers. Usually all rights to the songs were bought for a flat price. Songwriters who became established producers of successful songs were hired to be on the staff of the music houses. The most successful of them, like Harry Von Tilzer and Irving Berlin founded their own publishing