Definition of Tin Pan Alley in US English:
Tin Pan Alley
proper nounˌtɪn ˌpæn ˈæliˌtin ˌpan ˈalē
1A name given to a district in New York (around 28th Street, between 5th Avenue and Broadway) where many songwriters, arrangers, and music publishers were formerly based.
- 1.1 The world of composers and publishers of popular music in the early 20th century.
Example sentencesExamples
- Under the influence of Andrew Oldham, a Tin Pan Alley apprentice who was only 19 when he followed up a tip and went to see them at the Crawdaddy club in Richmond, they had begun writing their own songs.
- Among the important factors in the rise of Tin Pan Alley was the rapid growth of vaudeville.
- As music industry insiders often bought their first guitar strings in one of the numerous music-related shops, it is London's Tin Pan Alley.
- Be sure to bookmark this page and return in about 10 days to read about one of the other Tin Pan Alley publishers.
- In The Tin Pan Alley Rag Scott Joplin brings his opera Treemonisha to Irving Berlin in hopes of getting him to help get it published.