Unit 3 Vocabulary Flashcards
(5 cards)
Popular Music
music that is in style at a particular time. This continually evolves, even today
Tim Pan Alley
a sheet music creation and distribution center in 1900s New York City. It was the first centralized place to produce popular music.
Broadway
the American center of musical theater creation and innovation. It is also the location (and street name) of many of the first theaters in America in downtown Manhattan.
Integration
the combination of different styles, people, or ideas that maintains the characteristics of each in respect to their origin.
Irving Berlin, George and Ira Gerswhin, Cole Porter, and Jerome Kern
composers in the early 20th century well connected with Broadway and Tim Pan Alley.