Meaning of Tin Pan Alley | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The district in New York City centered on 28th Street from the late 19th to the early 20th century, wherein thousands of popular songs were commercially written.
2. The songwriting and publishing industry which was built around the songs produced in Tin Pan Alley; the style of popular music produced by this industry.
   metonymically

Examples

“From its inception the OWI framed directives that offered guidelines for songwriters to aid them in the composition of “proper” war songs, and, in the public press, the OWI rebuked Tin Pan Alley for its uninterrupted production of “nostalgic” hit songs.”

“At the time, almost all Tin Pan Alley and Broadway songs had two parts.”

CEFR level