YouTube Cons, Cautions and Kudos

MomCares
Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:31:44 +0000

Interesting story on Huffington Post.

Is YouTube the New Tin Pan Alley?

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So where do people hungry for the newest songs of the musical theater go now? Where is the next George Gershwin cutting his ivory teeth? As a musical theater writer and fan, I’ve spent the last decade looking to Broadway for inspiration from the next generation of writers. But more and more I’ve found that some of the most exciting new musical theater writers are not debuting on Broadway, but on YouTube. I started to wonder: Has a new digital Tin Pan Alley begun to emerge, and what does it mean for the future of musical theater and Broadway?

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[Ryan Cunningham: Is YouTube the New Tin Pan Alley?](Is YouTube the New Tin Pan Alley? | HuffPost Entertainment)