Tin Pan Alley
The songwriting and music publishing district centered on 28th Street in Manhattan, and by extension the era of American popular song it produced from the 1880s to 1950s.
In Depth
Irving Berlin, the most prolific Tin Pan Alley songwriter, composed over 1,500 songs despite being unable to read music — he played piano only in F-sharp and used a special transposing keyboard to change keys.
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