Tin Pan Alley
Coordinates: 40 ° 44 ′ 44 " N , 73 ° 59 ′ 22.5" W.
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As Tin Pan Alley (ger .: brass / Zinnpfannengasse ), the 28th Street between Fifth Avenue and Sixth Avenue , between which here the Broadway runs, in the New York district of Manhattan called. Most of the American music publishers were based here between 1900 and 1930 .
The street got its nickname from the then journalist Monroe H. Rosenfeld , who in the New Yorker Herald compared the constant jingling of the rehearsal piano with the clattering of tin pans. A presumed context of “steel drum” does not exist.
Tin Pan Alley became the power center of the American music industry from 1890 onwards . A large number of composers and lyricists who were busy composing popular hits worked for the publishers. These titles were in touch stapling , so-called Sheet Music , released a first big success of this kind was After the Ball . The so-called Great American Songbook began in the era of Tin Pan Alley , an uncertain canon of outstanding songs in American popular music from the 1930s to the 1950s.
Well-known songwriters who are associated with the Tin Pan Alley era are, for example, Cole Porter , George Gershwin , Peter DeRose , Irving Berlin , Sid Robin and the German-born Fred Fisher . Stars like Bing Crosby , the Rat Pack ( Frank Sinatra , Sammy Davis Jr. , Dean Martin ), Ella Fitzgerald and Leon Redbone also founded their fame on songs on Tin Pan Alley.
The blues piece Tin Pan Alley , written by Bob Geddins , was a success for Jimmy Wilson in 1953 and later u. a. Released by Stevie Ray Vaughan on the 1984 album Couldn't Stand the Weather .
It was only after the increasing emergence of folk music styles such as the mambo in the 1940s and the rock 'n' roll revolution in the 1950s that music publishers quickly lost their influence to the record companies .
literature
- Alexander Knapp, Regina Randhofer: Tin Pan Alley. In: Dan Diner (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture (EJGK). Volume 6: Ta-Z. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2015, ISBN 978-3-476-02506-7 , pp. 106-108.
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