Tin Pan Alley is the name of a 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: on West 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.
Among the famous songwriters who worked on Tin Pan Alley were Irving Berlin, W.C. Handy, George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Scott Joplin, Fats Waller, Hoagy Carmichael, and George M. Cohan. Many of their songs, such as Cohan’s “Give My Regards to Broadway” and Berlin’s “Alexander’s Ragtime Band,” became standards in the Great American Songbook.