As radical as rock & roll was when it first emerged in America, ragtime seemed childish to many at first, a fad that would fade quickly. Others found it threatening, and quirte possibly dangerous. To ...

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 ...

Friday is the anniversary of Scott Joplin’s death in 1917. The story of this Black master of the ragtime genre can seem like one that never got far beyond the starting gate and ended with a sad ...

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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 ...

Toe-tapping and head-bobbing are inevitable when listening to the "King of Ragtime’s" songs. They’re so compelling and familiar that one is even a famous ice cream truck jingle. But the music that ...

"Orchestrated rags from the Red back book and elsewhere by Eubie Blake, James Scott and others. Plus a Scott Joplin song and an excerpt from Joplin's Treemonisha."--Album cover. Conducted by T.J.

Charleston Rag; Alexander's Ragtime Band; Maple Leaf Rag; The Red Rose Rag; What You Goin' To Do When The Rent Comes Round? (Rufus Rastus Johnson Brown); Cascades; Bennie Badoo; If You Like A Me; The ...

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 ...