USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -47 West 28th Street, built in 1852, was home to at least 10 musicians’ and publishers’ offices over the course of 11 years. It was also the office of the New York Clipper, the foremost music and entertainment magazines of its time, and one that Tin Pan Alley’s publishers relied on to advertise their latest hits.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Tin Pan Alley American Popular Music Project commemorates and invigorates a living legacy: the birthplace of American Popular Music and the modern music industry on West 28th Street in New York City.

Detailed explanation-3: -Tin Pan Alley was a nickname given to West Twenty-eighth Street between Broadway and Sixth Avenue in Manhattan, where many of the fledgling popular music publishers had offices. In time, it became the generic term for all publishers of popular American sheet music, regardless of their geographic location.

Detailed explanation-4: -Tin Pan Alley was home to many prestigious songwriters of the time. Among these writers are Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin.

Detailed explanation-5: -Between the late 1890s and 1970s New York City’s music publishing district was known as “Tin Pan Alley”-a reference to the continuous sound of pianos emanating from nearly every open window nearby, allegedly causing a remark that it sounded like the banging of tin pans.