| Other author/creator | Hasse, John Edward, 1948- editor. |
| Other author/creator | Waterman, Guy, author. |
| Other author/creator | Schreyer, Lowell H., author. |
| Other author/creator | Berlin, Edward A., author. |
| Other author/creator | Schuller, Gunther, author. |
| Other author/creator | Tichenor, Trebor Jay, author. |
| Other author/creator | Leonard, Neil, 1927-2012, author. |
| Other author/creator | Reed, Addison W. (Addison Walker), 1929- author. |
| Other author/creator | Morath, Max author. |
| Other author/creator | Nadeau, Roland, author. |
| Other author/creator | Gillis, Frank, author. |
| Other author/creator | Campbell, Brun, author. |
| Other author/creator | Dapogny, James, author. |
| Other author/creator | Riddle, Ronald, author. |
| Other author/creator | Cohen, Norm, 1936- author. |
| Other author/creator | Cohen, David, 1942 April 26- author. |
| Contents |
The history of ragtime. Ragtime / Guy Waterman -- The banjo in ragtime / Lowell H. Schreyer -- Ragtime songs / Edward A. Berlin -- Rags, the classics, and jazz / Gunther Schuller -- Ragtime on piano rolls / Michael Montgomery, Trebor Jay Tichenor, and John Edward Hasse -- The reactions to ragtime / Neil Leonard -- Major ragtime figures. Scott Joplin: pioneer / Addison W. Reed -- James Scott / Marvin L. VanGilder -- The Ragtime Kid (An autobiography) / S. Brun Campbell -- May Aufderheide and the ragtime women / Max Morath -- Conversations with James P. Johnson / Tom Davin -- Rudi Blesh and the Ragtime revivalists / John Edward Hasse -- [The music of ragtime] -- The grace and beauty of classic rags / Roland Nadeau -- Hot rhythm in piano ragtime / Frank J. Gillis -- Joplin's late rags: an analysis / Guy Waterman -- The musical legacy of Joe Lamb / Joseph R. Scotti -- Jelly Roll Morton and ragtime / James Dapogny -- Band and orchestral ragtime / Thornton Hagert -- Novelty piano music / Ronald Riddle -- Ragtime in early country music / Norm Cohen and David Cohen -- Ragtime music folios and method books -- Rags on record: an LP discography / Philip J. Moe -- Ragtime compositions by women / Max Morath and John Edward Hasse. |
| Abstract |
Here, America's leading ragtime experts, in classic chapters and others written specially for this book, provide the most complete, up-to-date, and informative look available at the music, its makers, and its times. You'll find revealing portraits of such major innovators as Scott Joplin, Joseph Lamb, James P. Johnson, and a first-time look at ragtime's women artists. The music itself--subtle, original, sophisticated--comes alive in fascinating chapters that cover everything from the timeless beauty of piano rags to ragtime's surprising influences on classical, banjo, and early country music. Here, too, is the America that used ragtime as its theme music--as black artists struggled to be accepted, as the recording and entertainment industries arose, and as composers turned out thousands of rags to feed America's voracioius appetite for popular music. This book is an unparalleled source of facts and figures. There's the biggest liest ever compiled of books and articles about the music; the definitive ragtime discography; the definitive list of ragtime folios and method books for piano, organ, guitar, banjo, violin, and other instruments; rare photographs; and lists of compositions and composers (based on the latest research) throughout the book. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliography (pages 318-338), discography (pages 348-367), and index. |
| LCCN | 84013952 |
| ISBN | 0028716507 |
| ISBN | 0028726502 (pbk.) |
