THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
ART AND CULTURE OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
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Irving Berlin
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Bing Crosby
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Ira Gershwin
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Harold Arlen
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Detailed explanation-1: -George Gershwin played a prominent role in one of the most colorful eras of American popular music: the so-called age of Tin Pan Alley-roughly 1890-1930-when popular music became big business.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1912, [Tin Pan Alley composer] W.C. Handy introduced popular music to the underground sound of the Blues. By 1917, a recording by a new musician, Louis Armstrong, took over Tin Pan Alley and the 1920s were dedicated to the playing and recording of Jazz.
Detailed explanation-3: -Irving Berlin was soon hired as a songwriter by a Tin Pan Alley music publishing company and he went on to compose his first big hit, “Alexander’s Ragtime Band, ” in 1911. When the United States entered the First World War in 1917, Berlin and other Tin Pan Alley songwriters began to produce patriotic popular music.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.