At head of title: Recorded Anthology of American Music, Inc. Side one entitled Black tradition; side two entitled White tradition. Historical and biographical notes by Lawrence Cohn, with bibliography ...

On this Thursday's Central Standard, ragtime music and one of its earliest composers, Scott Joplin. A man of mystery, Joplin moved from place to place but left his heart in Sedalia, Missouri. This is ...

The life-altering moment for Mark Nuismer occurred 30 years ago when the teenager heard someone play "Maple Leaf Rag" at his Salt Lake City high school. "It was so hard, I thought I'd never be able to ...

A pulsating piano solo by a black composer published 125 years ago this fall became an unexpected bestseller, drew droves of young people to the piano, and became an enduring classic of American music ...

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Most people's knowledge of ragtime doesn't go past a few classic Scott Joplin compositions, and practitioners of the style today (not to mention composers) are few and far between. However, there has ...

TJ Muller takes care of Scott Joplin's piano at the Scott Joplin House, in St. Louis, Mo. The music known as ragtime first swept the nation more than 100 years ago. Missouri, known as the heartland of ...

At the turn of the 20th century, ragtime music was all the rage. It was music to dance to as well as music to pass on oral traditions. Created by recently freed Blacks who couldn’t then read or write ...

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Some people think that ragtime started with Irving Berlin’s Alexander’s Ragtime Band. Others, better informed, know that when Berlin’s song appeared (1911) ragtime had long since passed its peak.