Tin Pan Alley — Bunk History

Neil Young, on left, and UFC announcer and podcaster Joe Rogan.

What The Neil Young-Joe Rogan Dust-Up Tells Us About The Music Industry

The music industry is thriving — but it’s not always trickling down to artists.

by Sam Backer via Made By History on February 6, 2022

Jewish characters in television and film

The Long History of Jewface

Bradley Cooper’s prosthetic nose is the latest example of the struggles around Jewish representation on the stage and screen.

by Jody Rosen via The New Yorker on October 7, 2023

The Life of Song

What the surprising career of Bob McGrath teaches us about popular music.

by Kathryn Ostrofsky on December 14, 2022

No Opening Day Without Von Tilzer!

The Jewish Tin Pan Alley composer who wrote ‘Take Me Out to the Ball Game’ had never been to a ballgame.

by Robert Rockaway via Tablet on April 1, 2021

“Take Me Out to the Ball Game”: The Story of Katie Casey and Our National Pastime

The little-known story of one of the best known sing-along songs, and its connection to women's suffrage.

by George Boziwick via Our Game on October 8, 2013

Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen .

How the American Suburbs Created Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel

The musical culture of the New York metropolitan area, combined with themes of suburban life, suffuse the legends' music.

by Jim Cullen via Made By History on October 13, 2023

A Short History of Country Music’s Multicultural Mishmash

Or everything that came before Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus walked down that “Old Town Road.”

by David Hajdu via The Nation on June 7, 2019

Theodore Dreiser’s New York

Teddy Dreiser tries to make it.

by Mike Wallace via The Paris Review on October 26, 2017

Sheet music cover for "I Didn't Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier," 1915.

"I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier"

The sound of antiwar protest in 1915.

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