In the early twentieth century, the publishers of Tin Pan Alley revolutionized American music. Focused on the dissemination of a constantly changing set of attention-grabbing songs, leading companies dramatically expanded the market for popular compositions, generating hits that sold millions of copies of sheet music to customers across the country. While publishers aimed at this continental audience, their output was shaped by the urban context in which their businesses first emerged. During these years, local popularity was crucial to national success. As a result, firms sought to engage with new audiences throughout Manhattan, incorporating a host of social and ethnic groups into the structures of commercial entertainment. Over time, Tin Pan Alley’s relationship to these groups—and the distinctive leisure spaces in which they gathered—would define its musical production. It was not simply that publishers molded songs to fit public taste. Rather, the industry and the broader world of commercial entertainment developed together. By exploring this business-influenced process of cultural change, it is possible to gain new perspective on the emergence of American popular song, as well as the consumption-driven dynamics remaking society in the Progressive Era in the United States.

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“最好的歌曲来自阴沟”：锡盘巷与曼哈顿大众文化的诞生

二十世纪初，《Tin Pan Alley》的出版商彻底改变了美国音乐。领先的公司专注于传播一系列不断变化的引人注目的歌曲，极大地扩大了流行音乐的市场，产生了向全国各地的客户销售了数百万张乐谱的热门歌曲。虽然出版商瞄准的是大陆受众，但他们的作品却受到其业务最初出现的城市环境的影响。在这些年里，当地的知名度对于全国的成功至关重要。因此，公司寻求与整个曼哈顿的新受众互动，将许多社会和种族群体纳入商业娱乐的结构中。随着时间的推移，锡盘巷与这些群体的关系以及他们聚集的独特休闲空间将定义其音乐制作。这不仅仅是出版商为了迎合公众口味而塑造歌曲。相反，该行业和更广泛的商业娱乐世界共同发展。通过探索这种受商业影响的文化变迁过程，可以获得关于美国流行歌曲的出现以及美国进步时代消费驱动的动力重塑社会的新视角。