Yorkers,

What follows is several extracts of a query from a researcher in Brooklyn.
Any experts out there on the pre-Tin Pan Alley New York music business?
Replies to the list will be forwarded to him.

Thanks,
David

>>I encountered your web site while searching on the name Henry De Marsan.
Your chronology records his purchase of a song business from John Andrews in
1859 and also his publication of the Singer's Journal in 1868.

I am a scholar doing research on 19th century vernacular music and have
published in the area.  Any information you can give me regarding
contemporary references to  the song broadside and song book business will be
appreciated enormously.

 I've observed some interest in the specific songs appearing on
these song broadsides, but none to little in the people who produced them.
Perhaps your query will help me locate some who do indeed care about the New
York song business before the development of Tin Pan Alley.<<

David Minor
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