Tin Pan Alley : an encyclopedia of the golden age of American song / by Jasen, David A.

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The poets of Tin Pan Alley : a history of America's great lyricists / by Furia, Philip, 1943-

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God bless America : Tin Pan Alley goes to war / by Smith, Kathleen E. R.

Table of Contents: “…-- "Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition" -- "There's nary an 'Over there' in the lot" -- War songs in boy-girl terms -- War is good for the music business -- "Yearnful bellowings" -- Recipes for war songs -- Just love songs with a once-over-lightly war background -- The National Wartime Music Committee -- "From cantata to outright corn" -- Tin Pan Alley's music war committee -- Tin Pan Alley still seeks the "proper" war song -- Even stale music sells like nylons -- Jitterbugs and bobby-soxers -- "Meet Soozie Cue."…”
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Reinventing Dixie : Tin Pan Alley's songs and the creation of the mythic South / by Jones, John Bush

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God bless America : Tin Pan Alley goes to war / by Smith, Kathleen E. R.

Table of Contents: “…From Cantata to Outright Corn -- 11. Tin Pan Alley's Music War Committee; 12. Tin Pan Alley Still Seeks the Proper War Song.…”
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Funny, it doesn't sound Jewish : how Yiddish songs and synagogue melodies influenced Tin Pan Alley, Broadway, and Hollywood / by Gottlieb, Jack

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Jazz Age Jews / by Alexander, Michael, 1970-

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Jazz Age Jews / by Alexander, Michael, 1970-

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Celluloid symphonies : texts and contexts in film music history /

Table of Contents: “…Westward the course of Tin-Pan Alley (1929) /…”
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Saying it with songs : popular music and the coming of sound to Hollywood cinema / by Spring, Katherine

Table of Contents: “…Singing a song : the culture and conventions of popular music in the 1920s -- Owning a song : the restructuring of Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley -- Plugging a song : the discrete charm of the popular song, from Broadway to Hollywood -- Integrating a song : the threat to narrative plausibility -- Curtailing a song : toward the classical background score.…”
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Lift every voice : the history of African American music / by Peretti, Burton W. 1961-

Table of Contents: “…From West Africa to slavery -- Jubilee and Tin Pan Alley : contrasting sounds of freedom -- The rise of ragtime and the blues -- The emergence of jazz -- Jazz at the Philharmonic : the jazz avant-garde and black classical expression -- Gospel, freedom songs, and the struggle for equality -- Black popular music as big business.…”
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Composers in the movies : studies in musical biography / by Tibbetts, John C.

Table of Contents: “…The classical style: composers in the studio era -- A song remembered: Frédéric Chopin goes to war -- The new Tin Pan Alley: Hollywood looks at American popular songwriters -- "Just an innocent bystander": the composer films of Ken Russell -- "A long, dark coda into the night": the composer films of Tony Palmer -- Revisionist portraits: a medley of recent composer biopics.…”
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Pop song piracy : disobedient music distribution since 1929 / by Kernfeld, Barry Dean, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Printed music. Tin Pan Alley's near-perfect distribution system ; Bootlegging song sheets ; The content and uses of song sheets ; Fake books and music photocopying -- Broadcasting. …”
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The American musical and the formation of national identity / by Knapp, Raymond

Table of Contents: “…Contexts and strategies ; Nineteenth-century European roots : models and topics ; Early American developments : minstrelsy, extravaganza, pantomime, burlesque, vaudeville ; American song through Tin Pan Alley -- Defining America. Whose (Who's) America? …”
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Bound for Vietnam / by Laube, Lydia, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…; 6 Cops and Robbers; 7 The Bike Police; 8 Big Nose in Nanning; 9 Heroin to Hair Oil; 10 Hanoi; 11 Chariots of Dire; 12 Tin Pan Alley; 13 Snake Livers and Jungle Juice; Back cover…”
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Irving Berlin : songs from the melting pot : the formative years, 1907-1914 / by Hamm, Charles

Table of Contents: “…PREFACE: Irving Berlin and the Crucible of God; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION: Irving Berlin and the Nature of Tin Pan Alley Song; 1. Berlin's Songs for the Vaudeville Stage; 2. …”
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Adventures of a Jazz Age lawyer : Nathan Burkan and the making of American popular culture / by Rosen, Gary A.

Table of Contents: “…Prologue -- Immigrant passages -- The Pittsburgh troubles -- To Victor belong the spoils -- Tin Pan Alley -- Canned music -- Mr. Burkan goes to Washington -- The two-cent solution -- Entr'acte -- The lone star -- Charlie in the harem -- The price of a good time -- The gospel of performing rights -- Shanley's cabaret extraordinaire -- The music tax -- The ether toy -- The silent screen -- The jazz singer -- Rum runners -- The bindlestiff -- New York's spotlight lawyer -- Love's undertaker -- Nightstick censorship -- The big bankroll and the little flower -- Modern times -- New Deal days -- Gloria -- Blue bloods meet the hoi polloi -- Twilight of the music trust -- Exeunt.…”
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Adventures of a Jazz Age lawyer : Nathan Burkan and the making of American popular culture / by Rosen, Gary A.

Table of Contents: “…Prologue -- Immigrant passages -- The Pittsburgh troubles -- To Victor belong the spoils -- Tin Pan Alley -- Canned music -- Mr. Burkan goes to Washington -- The two-cent solution -- Entr'acte -- The lone star -- Charlie in the harem -- The price of a good time -- The gospel of performing rights -- Shanley's cabaret extraordinaire -- The music tax -- The ether toy -- The silent screen -- The jazz singer -- Rum runners -- The bindlestiff -- New York's spotlight lawyer -- Love's undertaker -- Nightstick censorship -- The big bankroll and the little flower -- Modern times -- New Deal days -- Gloria -- Blue bloods meet the hoi polloi -- Twilight of the music trust -- Exeunt.…”
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Segregating sound : inventing folk and pop music in the age of Jim Crow / by Miller, Karl Hagstrom, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Tin Pan Alley on tour : the Southern embrace of commercial music -- Making money making music : the education of Southern musicians in local markets -- Isolating folk, isolating songs : reimagining Southern music as folklore -- Southern musicians and the lure of New York City : representing the South from coon songs -- To the blues -- Talking machine world : discovering local music in the global phonograph industry -- Race records and old-time music : the creation of two marketing categories in the 1920s -- Black folk and hillbilly pop : industry enforcement of the musical color line -- Reimagining pop tunes as folk songs: the ascension of the folkloric paradigm -- Afterword: "All songs is folk songs."…”
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A change in the weather : modernist imagination, African American imaginary / by Jacques, Geoffrey

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