Tin Pan Alley: Artists' Contribution to World War II

What is your favorite song? The weather of the sweater. I count the stars. How about Royals? Music has always existed in human culture and mind, but music is not always so bold, luxurious, and distinctive, it takes time to evolve into what you think is "popular" . The street is the beginning of such big evolution in America. The Tenzan lane, which is one of hundreds of streets dating back to the Second World War from the late 1880s, and the tragic American history played an important role in the lives and attitudes of people in the early 20th century It was. .

George Gershwin played an important role in so-called heavenly times in the period from 1890 to 1930 when pop music became a big company, one of the most colorful era of American pop music. In Tin Pan Alley (28th Street between Broadway in New York and Fifth Avenue), many music publishers pop songs each year. Ragtime, romantic folk, comedy songs sound in musicals and private living rooms. Talented composers such as Gershwin, Owen Berlin and Jerome Kahn provide food for this advantageous music production machine among tens of small characters.

Since that moment when it became a big company, pop music was mainly from Tin Pan Alley's publisher. Tin Pan Alley is active in opera, ragtime, cake trail, foxtrot, performance songs. As the latter represented the business of more and more songwriters, Tin Pan Alley moved north in the 1930s between 42nd Street and 49th Street near Broadway Theater. Unfortunately for them, before the Second World War, the market began to be dominated by the "big band" which occupied nearly 85% of the best sellers between 1937 and 1941. The publisher is a real loser because the big band tends to play music written by a band leader.

In 1910, Tin Pan Alley sold a score of 2 billion dollars. Ragtime is very popular in Tianping Lane and eventually replaces the folk song as a best-selling song product. In 1914 Bruce invaded Tenpyeong Road and was brought in by WC. Handy, I wrote the first commercial blues. Handy 's "St. Louis Blues" is not only classical in America, but also overseas. During World War I, the story building was closed, sent jazz musicians to the Mississippi River, looking for employment opportunities, and spreading jazz to river cities and to Chicago and New York. In 1917, The Original Dixieland Jazz Band released the first jazz record. It was the first to sell one million copies of the album. The record recorded by the European band at the beginning of 1919 out of a few weeks when the man returned to America was finally reissued to the CD.