Scott Joplin was an early musician who transformed much of the landscape of popular music in the early 1900s. Though many details of his short life are uncertain, his impact on early American music is ...

Editor's Note: The historical photos in this story feature a variety of dances inspired by music from the 20th century. I must have been 7 or 8 when I first heard Scott Joplin's "The Entertainer" in ...

In the post-Civil War era, the cruel breath of slavery and the aborted plan of Reconstruction still hung over the American South. But in the Joplin home, banjo and fiddle music filled the family’s ...

Maple Leaf Rag (Piano & Orchestra Version); Solace; Pleasant Moments; Heliotrope Bouquet (Stomp Version); Courtship (Based On Elite Syncopation); Cutting Contest / Maple Leaf Rag; Peacherine Rag; The ...

When Richard Dowling was 9, the movie “The Sting” came out, with the famous Marvin Hamlisch soundtrack that included six ragtime songs composed by Scott Joplin. “I literally fell in love with ‘The ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Lara Downes’s latest album, “Reflections: Scott Joplin Reconsidered,” is inspired by the fact that Joplin’s achievement remains fuzzy to many. By Seth ...

Scott Joplin elevated ragtime, composed one of the first African-American operas and laid the groundwork for jazz. These remarkable black men and women never received obituaries in The New York Times ...