We have a detailed history of Tin Pan Alley thanks to invaluable information from the Historic Districts Council in their “Brief-ish History of Tin Pan Alley” written in 2008, and Michael Minn in his piece “Tin Pan Alley”, part of his “New York City” photography collection project. As both accounts cover both overlapping and different information, we present them both below. Many thanks to them both for their thorough and dogged research and insightful presentation.
Exhibition: “Illustrating Tin Pan Alley: From Ragtime to Jazz”
Fri, Jul 19
|Society of Illustrators
The Society of Illustrators and the Tin Pan Alley American Popular Music Project presents an exhbtion of sheet music illustrations from the Collection of historian John T. Reddick, Illustrating Tin Pan Alley: From Ragtime to Jazz." FOR MORE INFO: https://societyillustrators.org/event/tinpanalley/
Time & Location
Jul 19, 2024, 11:00 AM – Sep 21, 2024, 5:00 PM
Society of Illustrators, 128 E 63rd St, New York, NY 10065, USA
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About the event
Exhibition
“Illustrating Tin Pan Alley: From Ragtime to Jazz”
July 24-September 21, 2024
Society of Illustrators, 128 East 63rd Street
Presented in partnership with the Tin Pan Alley American Popular Music Project
This exhibition of sheet music covers, and other illustrations are drawn from the collection of Harlem historian John T. Reddick whose research has focused on that community's Black and Jewish music culture between 1890-1930. The illustrations on sheet music served as an important tool in marketing Tin Pan Alley songs and capturing their spirit in the minds of the public. The sheet music helps tell the stories of the songwriters, music publishers and performers -- many of whom were Eastern European Jewish immigrants and Black Americans -- that formed the sound and industry of American Popular Music in the first half of the 20th Century,