Tin Pan Alley
An Encyclopedia of the Golden Age of American Song
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- $82.99
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- $82.99
Publisher 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.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Jasen's ( Rags and Ragtime , etc.) survey of American popular songs, arranged roughly by decade, contains profiles of hundreds of composers, lyricists and singers and lists some of the best-known tunes of each year and dance forms for each decade. Aside from sections on the principal song publishers and the birth and death dates, when known, of the firms and individuals mentioned, the book contains little that is not already available in the standard books on American popular music by Gerald Boardman, David Ewen, James Fuld, Stanley Green and Ian Whitcomb. Photos not seen by PW.
