Tin Pan Alley's term-coiner
Dale Brumfield, writing for Richmond’s Style Weekly, recalls Monroe Rosenfeld, the son of a 19th-century Richmond tobacconist who grew up to be a songwriter and music journalist who popularized the term “Tin Pan Alley” for the New York haunts and musical style of popular tunesmiths:
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