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What does Tin Pan Alley mean?

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  1. The district in New York City centered on 28th Street from the late 19th to the early 20th century, wherein thousands of popular songs were commercially written.
  2. The songwriting and publishing industry which was built around the songs produced in Tin Pan Alley; the style of popular music produced by this industry.
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Among the important factors in the rise of Tin Pan Alley was the rapid growth of vaudeville.
He assesses the development of major record companies and pop songwriting from the Tin Pan Alley songsmiths to rap, reggae, and rock composers and noisemakers.
These themes were inherited from a variety of sources, including the Tin Pan Alley pop tradition, folk music and rhythm and blues.
Their music bypasses Tin Pan Alley for punk, funk, rhythm-and-blues and rockabilly.
The original application of the term is to music of the 1880s Tin Pan Alley period in the United States.
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.

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