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Fascinatin' Rhythm: City Songs, 08/17/2019

Tin Pan Alley
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Tin Pan Alley

Episode #1933  

8/17      City Songs City songs aren’t about subject or setting as much as they’re about a distinct sensibility that can only be called urban—maybe even strictly New York City. That’s where Tin Pan Alley was, and Broadway and Harlem as well. That sensibility is central to what defines the Great American Songbook.