1.It was here that publishers adopted new aggressive business practice and marketing techniques to achieve great sales.
就在此处,出版商们为实现更高的销售额而运用推销战术、展开激烈的商业竞争。
2. How it became to be known by that name is unclear, but the general opinion is that it is down to a visiting journalist by the name of Monroe Rosenfeld.
锡盘巷名字的准确由来无从考证,不过通常认为是与一位名叫门罗•罗森菲尔德的外勤记者有关。
3.He used it several times in his newspaper articles in the early twentieth century and the term stuck. With time this name was popularly embraced and many yeas later it came to describe the U.S music publishing industry in general.
十九世纪早期门罗在他的文章中多次使用此名,这个称呼便固定下来。时光流转,这个名字因受人爱戴而流行起来。 多年以后它渐渐被用来统称美国的音乐出版界了。
4. The start of Tin Pan Alley is usually dated to about 1885, but the end of Tin Pan Alley is less clear-cut. Some date it to the start of the Great Depression in the 1930s when the phonograph and radio replaced sheet music as the driving force of American popular music, while others consider Tin Pan Alley to have continued into the 1950s when earlier styles of American popular music were upstaged by the rise of rock&roll.
通常,锡盘巷的源起被追溯到1885年,但衰亡消失的时间并无定论。有人认为是30年代的经济大萧条初期,当留声机和收音机取代散页乐谱从而催生美国流行音乐的时候。还有人认为是20世纪50年代,锡盘巷存续到了摇滚风登台的美国流行音乐早期。
5.But the buildings that were home to the legendary Tin Pan Alley publishers and songwriters are up for sale and may be torn down to make room for modern high-rise buildings.
不过眼下,锡盘巷富有传奇色彩的出版商和音乐写手曾经居住的家园正待价而沽,且可能被拆除为高楼大厦所取代。
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