tin pan alley

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Noun tin pan alley has 1 sense

Tin Pan Alley - a city district (originally in New York) where composers and publishers of popular music do business
--₁ is a kind of business district, downtown

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Tin Pan Alley

Noun:

(1) A district in New York City, known as the center of the American popular music publishing industry from the late 19th to the mid-20th centuries.

Example sentence: The musicians and songwriters of the early 1900s flocked to Tin Pan Alley in hopes of selling their compositions to the publishers.

(2) A genre of popular music that emerged from Tin Pan Alley, characterized by sentimental ballads and catchy melodies.

Example sentence: Frank Sinatra was one of the legendary singers who rose to fame during the Golden Age of Tin Pan Alley.

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