MUAR 392 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Irving Berlin, Duke Ellington, Guy Lombardo
14 Sep 2016
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Muar392 tin pan alley, big band and swing reading notes. Part 1: before 1950: irving berlin in tin pan alley. Most of the 19th c in na, music was built around sheet-music trade for home performers. Offices in nyc known as the music publish business, where the publishers set up was known as the tin pan alley. Broadway show relied on tin pan alley songwriters for music which circulated among customers. 1890s popular music dominated by victorian-style ballads and waltz songs composed by. European american songwriters shortly after, african americans introduced ragtime: russian immigrant songwriter irving berlin came in exuberance for social liberation, eg. the grizzly bear and the turkey trot. Importance of ethnic identities in forging a tin pan alley style that was perceived as distinctly american. Apparent standardized quality of songs also enables a great deal of flexibility in performance, allowing the song to be rearticulated in many ways.
