THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
AMERICAN POLITICS IN THE 1920S
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Bing Crosby
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Fred Astaire
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Harold Arlen
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Tin Pan Alley
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -Tin Pan Alley was a collection of music publishers and songwriters in New York City that dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Detailed explanation-3: -Tin Pan Alley exists both as a cultural construct, and as a physical place, the latter being a rough grouping of apartments, offices, rooms, spaces on West 28th Street between Fifth and Broadway in Manhattan.
Detailed explanation-4: -Tin Pan Alley, genre of American popular music that arose in the late 19th century from the American song-publishing industry centred in New York City.
Detailed explanation-5: -Tin Pan Alley’s songwriters, song pluggers, and song publishers made their living making music make money, and besides creating a vast body of unforgettable tunes they established what became the American recording industry.