Tin Pan Alley 
1The name given to a district in New York (28th Street, between 5th Avenue and Broadway) where many songwriters, arrangers, and music publishers were formerly based.
1.1 [as noun, usually as modifier] The world of composers and publishers of popular music.Under the influence of Andrew Oldham, a Tin Pan Alley apprentice who was only 19 when he followed up a tip and went to see them at the Crawdaddy club in Richmond, they had begun writing their own songs....
- Among the important factors in the rise of Tin Pan Alley was the rapid growth of vaudeville.
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