1.

Based on Tin Pan Alley, describe the ways in which industrialization revolutionized
the music industry and how this impacted leisure time spend by its middle-class
consumers.

Industrialization saw the invention of the radio and phonograph that superseded the sheet music
as the predominant way to consume popular songs. Tin Pan Alley fell behind in the technology
and style. Rock and roll emerged during industrialization period contributing to the decline of the
Tin Pan Alley music. Presently, the advancement of film, audio, recoding, television, and radio
has raised the demand for variety of music. As a result, Tin Pan Alley has been rendered
symbolically dead. Consumption of the music by people has turned completely to passive
enjoyment of music.

2. How did the topical and ideological themes within the Blues deviate from the more
conservative subject matter found in Tin Pan Alley?

Throughout establishment of blues genre, topics and themes dealt with the present adversities
and tussles of the time period, religion as well as individual situations. Typically, themes would
include spiritual beliefs, discrimination, social injustices, relationships, wars, and families.

3. In consideration of emotional sentimentality of content in Tin Pan Alley music,

contrast this to the ideologies and primary goals of the songwriters writing the
music.

Generally, the ideologies and goals of songwriters is to express real happening surrounding their
lives and the society. Emotional sentimentality of content in Tin Pan Alley music seemed to
deviate from facts of life and represented it in an unrealistically manner.