Tin Pan Alley je zajednički naziv za grupu njujorškihmuzičkih izdavača, kompozitora i tekstopisaca koji su dominirali američkom zabavnom, odnosno popularnom muzikom krajem 19. i u prvoj polovici 20. vijeka.
Spomen ploča Tin Pan Alleyu u New Yorku
Početak Tin Pan Alleya se obično vezuje uz godinu 1885. kada je niz izdavačkih kuća postavio svoja sjedišta u istom distriktu Manhattana. Kraj neki historičari vezuju uz Veliku depresiju 1930-ih koja je gramofon i radio učinila glavnim medijem za konzumaciju popularne muzike umjesto dotadašnjih štampanih partitura. Drugi pak smatraju da je Tin Pan Alley ostao kao zasebna institucija sve do pojave rock'n'rolla 1950-ih.
Najpoznatiji kompozitori i tekstopisci Tin Pan Alleya su bili:
Bloom, Ken. The American Songbook: The Singers, the Songwriters, and the Songs. New York: Black Dog and Leventhal, 2005.
Forte, Allen. Listening to Classic American Popular Songs. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001.
Philip Furia(1990).The Poets of Tin Pan Alley: A History of America’s Great Lyricists.ISBN0195074734..
Philip Furia and Lasser, Michael(2006).The American’s Songs: The Stories Behind the Songs of Broadway, Hollywood, and Tin Pan Alley.ISBN0415990521..
Goldberg, Isaac. Tin Pan Alley, A Chronicle of American Music. New York: Frederick Ungar, [1930], 1961.
Jasen, David A. Tin Pan Alley: The Composers, the Songs, the Performers and Their Times. New York: Donald I. Fine, Primus, 1988.
Jasen, David A., and Gene Jones. Spreadin’ Rhythm Around: Black Popular Songwriters, 1880-1930. New York: Schirmer Books, 1998.
Marks, Edward B., as told to Abbott J. Liebling. They All Sang: From Tony Pastor to Rudy Vallée. New York: Viking Press, 1934.
Morath, Max. The NPR Curious Listener’s Guide to Popular Standards. New York: Penguin Putnam, Berkley Publishing, a Perigree Book, 2002.
Sanjek, Russell. American Popular Music and Its Business: The First Four Hundred Years, Volume III, From 1900 to 1984. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Sanjek, Russell. From Print to Plastic: Publishing and Promoting America’s Popular Music, 1900-1980. I.S.A.M. Monographs: Number 20. Brooklyn: Institute for Studies in American Music, Conservatory of Music, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, 1983.
Tawa, Nicholas E. The Way to Tin Pan Alley: American Popular Song, 1866-1910. New York: Schirmer Books, 1990.
Whitcomb, Ian. After the Ball: Pop Music from Rag to Rock. New York: Proscenium Publishers, 1986, reprint of Penguin Press, 1972.
Wilder, Alec. American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950. London: Oxford University Press, 1972.
Zinsser, William. Easy to Remember: The Great American Songwriters and Their Songs. Jaffrey, NH: David R. Godine, 2000.