Tin Pan Alley Research Paper

Life is very complex and often hard to define. However, this challenge does not stop people from trying to sum up the meaning of life in one word. In Paper Towns by John Green, the three metaphors the strings, the grass, and the vessel are used throughout the book to chronicle the protagonist’s, Quentin, experiences. The novel revolves around Quentin Jacobsen, a high school senior. When his former best friend and long time crush, Margo Roth Spiegelman, comes back into his life and then suddenly disappears, Q attempts to piece together the clues he believes Margo left behind for him. Each of these three metaphors represent what Q is feeling and allow him to view life from different perspectives. As

     The birth of Motown music came to be in a small recording studio aptly named Hitsville, U.S.A. Barry Gordy, who came from a large middle class family had borrowed money in order. The main stage of Motown music came from a small house that had been remodeled into a recording studio, the name of the company was Hitsville, U.S.A. Mr. Gordy had gathered the best jazz and blues players in and Motown was born through his genius. This small but dynamic

Have you ever wondered about how people lived in the late 1800s in America? Historians aren’t the only ones who can teach you about those times. Laura Ingalls Wilder lived in those days and experienced all of the joys, pain and hardship of living the pioneer life. She decided to write about her experiences later in life, and those writings became famous for providing a window into what life was like then. This paper will detail the life of Laura Ingalls Wilder and her contributions to literature and recording american history as the writer of the Little House book series.

Both the radio and records have had significant impact on the development on rock n’ roll. Similarly, the radio and records gave musical artists an extended ability to stretch their audiences. Strongly intertwined, while they both gave listeners the ability to find artists they like, there are some clear differences between each the developments of the radio and that of records. In the years prior, the music industry was built on the “Tin Pan Alley” system that strictly controlled musicians and popular music (Schloss, Starr, and Waterman, p. 2-7). And much like the spirit of rock n’ roll itself, people within the industry eventually grew tired of conformity and no longer felt the need to follow the rules. Radio stations started forming separate licensing companies (BMI), which allowed them to play what they want (Schloss, Starr, and Waterman, p. 7). With an “open door” policy that allowed broadcasters to play music they wanted, radio stations had the important job of sharing a variety of music that could be heard all across the country. The radio began to function as a way of transporting records and genres of music all over the country from the traditional cultures they formed, which includes R&B, blues, and country. This reshaped the music industry by expanding its reach to new audiences. This, “allowed songwriters working outside of mainstream pop to claim royalties on the use of their songs on broadcasted

My movie is Mean Girls. I have probably watched this movie more times than I would like to admit. This is a great movies because any high school girl can relate to it. Mean Girls is about a teenaged girl names Cady that movies from Africa after being homeschooled for all theses years, and she goes to a public school and eventually ends up part of “the plastics” and completely changes from who she was. (Waters 2004) This movie really hits close to home being a teenage girl at one point. Mean girls has a lot to do with adolescence development such as: peer pressure, self-esteem, moral identity and observational learning.

The 1920s was the beginning of a decade of change in the American arts. Jazz, along with such inventions as the phonograph, radio and sound movies, transformed the music industry. By the end of the decade, 40% of all Americans had radios in their homes. Not surprisingly, 58% of households in New York City owned a radio. New York became the center of the music world, and at the center of New York was a small area called Tin Pan Alley. Radios initially provided the young century's second uppercut to the music publishing business of Tin Pan Alley. Burton Lane was part of a well-known Cape Town-based duo, who delivered a powerful, emotive and distinctive blend of acoustic rock stated, "Tin Pan Alley was a real alley on East

On August 4th, 1892 in Fall River, Massachusetts; Andrew & Abby Borden were found dead in their home. However, the only person they suspected of committing the murders was Lizzie Borden, the daughter of Andrew and step-daughter of Abby. This became a controversial case when they had a lot of incriminating evidence, yet they did not convict anyone with the murders. In the controversial court case of Lizzie Borden and the Murder of Andrew & Abby Borden, the verdict of not guilty was incorrectly put upon Lizzie Borden even though the evidence said otherwise.

Lizzie Borden was a suspect in the murder of the Borden parents which were killed with an ax in August of 1892, they lived in a greenhouse in Maryland in the town called fall river. Although she was not convicted of the murder of Andrew and Sarah Borden. I think lizzie borden killed her parents and this is why.There was many weird things about lizzie borden.Why would she kill her own parents? Her dad was very wealthy and her stepmom was greedy but if her father died she would inherit what would now 7 million dollars and she felt like she owed it to her real mom, who had been “replaced” her stepmom after her mom's random death. She had some weird behaviors before the murders and after. Before her parent's murder, she tried to buy poisonous acids for cleaning the house and they found one of her white dress with inconsistent dark red spots that were hidden in one of her drawers.In this case none was arrested but 2 people including lizzie were tried.Why wasn't Lizzie Borden or anybody else arrested, Lizzie was not arrested because she was just Sunday school teacher, so the court thought that a teacher of Jesus would never do such a thing and, she had a clean record.

Some reasons that the music scene of Kansas diminished in the late 1930’swere because of talent scouts and record executives who looked for new talent to sign to contracts, the amount of musicians who left for New York to seek fame, gang assassinations, and Prendergast losing money and being convicted for dipping into the public till the debt Prendergast left the city

"There's nothing surer; the rich get richer and the poor get poorer." This was considered the beliefs of the roaring 20's. The Cotton Club was the first club that was opened to both white and black people. Coincidently, it was packed nightly. The 1920's is known as the Jazz Age. During this time period, the best selling pop hits were sentimental ballads, old-fashioned waltzes, and nonsense songs. In 1925, the Grand Ole Opry was transmitted on radio from Nashville for the first time. People were traveling to more places, which influenced their songs. Many of the songs produced during this period were about places such as the songs "Chicago" and "California Here I Come."

The major performing rights organizations were formed to help songwriters and publishers collect performance royalties from their original copyrighted material. The first performing rights organization was created when composers were making their main revenue from sheet music sales. Those composers believed that they deserved to to fairly compensated from people performing their compositions they created ASCAP to help protect them and collect royalties (Schlackman). After ASCAP was founded radio broadcasters were unhappy with the high prices and lack of competition in the music licensing industry. As a result the radio broadcaster came together to form BMI which gave ASCAP competition and gave people the ability to have other options for paying for music (Broadcast Music Inc. History). SESAC was formed by a German immigrant to help the European publishers and artists collect their American royalties (SESAC History). The different performing rights organizations were all formed not only protect the songwriters and publishers with their royalties but also the people who had to pay for the rights to the songs so that they are not extremely overpaying for the music.

Over the past fifty years, the British Music Publishing industry has undergone dramatic changes. It has evolved as an entity with innovations in technology, changes and creations of laws and new mediums to promote and exploit songs to a wider audience. Therefore, the way in which the music publishing industry operates and exploits its assets has completely transformed, and continues to do so at a rapid pace. This paper will attempt to explore the ways in which publishers exploit song copyrights and the way in which this has changed over the past 60 years. It is important to define what is meant by copyright and its role within the industry. The Performing Right Society website states: “Copyright

In the world of Jazz there are known to be only two time periods in jazz: before Charlie Parker and after Charlie Parker. Charlie Parker has become an American icon and extremely important to the world of jazz. He had many successes throughout his life, but I want to find; how did Charlie Parker’s fast pace improvisation solo style effect the creation of bebop? Carlie Parker’s complex harmony and rhythms he integrated into his improvisation solo style laid the groundwork for the creation of a new jazz style known today as bebop.

In 1921, Starr Piano opened a studio in their Richmond, Indiana industrial complex. Like most labels in this era, Starr Piano sold their records in their regional piano and phonograph stores. This network of stores also provided information about local and regional music, that until 1920, was largely ignored by the large record companies, like Victor and Columbia. Gennett, like many of the smaller upstarts, realized there was little to no competition with regional and local music. Starr Piano’s Chicago store manager, Fred Wiggins, began scouting and recommending several jazz artists that were popular at such venues as the Lincoln Gardens. Richmond’s Penn Station regularly received rains from Chicago, and Wiggins soon sent such groundbreaking jazz pioneers as the New Orleans Rhythm Kings, King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band, and Jelly Roll Morton to Richmond to record in the newly opened studio. This Chicago connections also brought several race / blues artists to Richmond, including Georgia Tom Dorsey, Big Bill Broonzy, and Scrapper Blackwell. Additional pipelines developed between Richmond and Cincinnati, Indianapolis, and Kentucky. The Kentucky connection established Gennett as a leader in the burgeoning hillbilly music

I think that the reason why you wanted us to make tin hats was because you are trying to tell us that the world is eventually going to end, but you had to do it in secret because the government is stopping you from telling the world since they are reptiles. I first realized this because tin rhymes with fin, and fin is the French word for finished, also t and f kinda look the same. I'm pretty sure this means that the world is going to end, but I thought to myself there has to be a way to stop it and the answer lies with the word “hats”. Then I asked myself what rhymes with hats and the answer came to me, it was CATS, I know this because the class Conspiracy Theories starts with the letter “C” and if you add the “ats” from hats, you get CATS.