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on 3 October 2009 (#23062616)
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| Tin Pan Alley once sat snuggled noisily in New York City's dear Manhattan. It produced some, if not nearly all, of the most recognizable American standards published between the 1890s and 1930s (if not a little before or a little later). She shared sister streets across the globe that produced ballads, comedies, melodramatic love songs, scores and musicals. She gave us the first big million-selling #1 hits and famous singers and songsters.She's not really the point here, though. Instead, Tin Pan Alley sits squarely in the era we want to occupy.The Tin Pan Bang is an original and fandom art and fiction alley (no, not that Fiction Alley), if you will. This ain't a Big Bang. This is just a bang. | Produce a lot or a little. Write or draw or do both. The kicker here comes with our theme: Every story must be set between the 1890s through to the start of WWII. Whether you concentrate on one year or ten, that's your choice. All we ask is that you fit your choice into the timeline. You don't need to set it in Tin Pan Alley, or New York City, or North America. You can take it out as far as you'd like, though we would appreciate it if you stayed on this planet and played with its history.The expectation, then, may be that most fiction and art will occupy the realm of the AU, unless you're so lucky that your chosen canon, be it self-generated or fan-generated, is set within this period.RULES | TIMELINE | SIGN-UP |
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