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Popular music centre of plainly neat construction
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tin pan alley
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Tin Pan Alley is the name given to the collection of New York City music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century. The name originally referred to a specific place: West ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"hit song writing business," 1907, from tin pan , slang for "a decrepit piano" (1882). The original one was "that little section of Twenty-eighth Street, Manhattan, that lies between Broadway and Sixth Avenue," home to many music publishing houses.
Usage examples of tin pan alley.
I said things about that moon that the poets and the Tin Pan Alley merchants wouldn't have approved of at all.
Later on, and that's why I used to sit around on doorsteps in Tin Pan Alley, I would while away the afternoons listening to the professionals mugging it out.
Up front, Doc Bonilla was lifting his rich baritone voice in the plaintive songs of his native Spain, La Golondrina and La Paloma, followed by Tommy's mother's favorites from Tin Pan Alley, In a Little Spanish Town and Amapola.
And the crystals make things -- even complete things -- like Tin Pan Alley makes songs.
We'll want the most competent tunesmiths in Tin Pan Alley to work on them.