Scott Joplin is one of the legends of the piano canon – every aspiring pianist under the sun has banged away at ‘The Entertainer’. But how much do you know about the King of Ragtime? You only need to ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Joan Reynolds was in junior high school, one of the most popular movies at the time was “The Sting.” A budding pianist, she especially loved the ragtime music in the movie that included the ...

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 ...

Ragtime music, with its syncopated or "ragged" rhythms, is considered by many observers to be the first purely American form of popular music. Drawing on a diversity of styles, ragtime emerged from ...