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Historic view of Tin Pan Alley music publishing storefronts on West 28th Street in New York City, including Jerome H. Remick and Company, Whitney Warner Music, and the William Morris Agency. Sheet music cover for Give My Regards to Broadway, showing George M. Cohan as a cane-carrying comedian and text crediting words and music by George M. Cohan. Ira Gershwin writes at a table covered with papers while George Gershwin plays piano beside him; both wear dress shirts and ties in a 1930s interior.
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Historic view of Tin Pan Alley music publishing storefronts on West 28th Street in New York City, including Jerome H. Remick and Company, Whitney Warner Music, and the William Morris Agency.
Tin Pan Alley View of buildings along Tin Pan Alley in New York City, c. 1905. The William Morris Agency occupied one of the storefronts on 28th Street between Fifth Avenue and Sixth Avenue.

Tin Pan Alley

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Tin Pan Alley, genre of American popular music that arose in the late 19th century from the American song-publishing industry centered in New York City. The genre took its name from the byname of the street on which the industry was based, being on 28th Street between Fifth Avenue and Broadway in the early 20th century; around Broadway and 32nd Street in the 1920s; and ultimately on Broadway between 42nd and 50th streets. The phrase...

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