Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, OTEL - University of Illinois at Springfield

Bobby Approved (v 3.2)
Thursday, September 20, 2001

http://chronicle.com/free/2001/09/2001092001t.htm

A University Library Creates a Virtual Walk Through Tin Pan Alley
By BROCK READ

In one image, a beaming Irving Berlin sits at his piano. Above, an arc of words proclaims: "He's a Rag Picker." In another, a couple dressed in Roaring Twenties garb dance the "Shim-Me-Sha-Wabble." These are but two images in an online archive displaying works from the Templeton Sheet Music Collection. Exploring the unusual archive is a virtual walk through Tin Pan Alley -- by way of Mississippi State University....

 



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