Respond to the prompt below with a minimum of 150 words and include at least two concepts or vocabulary terms from the textbook or lecture.
Themes of Tin Pan Alley lyrics. Understanding how the themes and style of Tin Pan Alley lyrics continue to influence the contemporary popular music landscape.
Tin Pan Alley songs were linked to “the prominence of privacy and romance as cultural ideals.” Those ideals continue to influence American culture in general and America popular music specifically. These exercises explore some common themes between Tin Pan Alley songs of the early 20th century and contemporary popular music.
Step 1: Examine the lyrics of Whiting and Donaldson’s My Blue Heaven (included with your text) and Gershwin’s Our Love Is Here to Stay (do an online search for these lyrics).
Step 2: Summarize the content of the lyrics for these two songs in one sentence each.
Step 3: Find a song written in the last 10 years that explores the same issues and offers the same perspective as My Blue Heaven and Our Love Is Here to Stay. Explicate this connection, citing at least three lines in the contemporary song that support your argument.
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