Ragtime: An Encyclopedia, Discography, and Sheetography is the definitive reference for this important popular form of music, which flourished from the 1890s through the 1920s.
Essays on ragtime music cover rhythm, instruction, novelty songs, influence on early country music, and the works of Scott Joplin, James Scott, and James P. Johnson
An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between the turn of the century and the First World War. The story opens in 1906 in New Rochelle, New York, at the home of an affluent American family.
But the understanding of ragtime and its era has been clouded by a history of murky impressions, half-truths, and inventive fictions. Ragtime: A Musical and Cultural History cuts through the murkiness.
Presents an introduction to the history, leading practitioners, and music of ragtime while tracking its manifestations in other musical styles and genres.
Welcome to America at the turn of the twentieth century, where the rhythms of ragtime set the beat.
Ragtime: An Encyclopedia, Discography, and Sheetography is the definitive reference work for this important popular form of music that flourished from the 1890s through the 1920s, and was one of the key predecessors of jazz.
A novel set in in America at the turn of the 20th century. It's characters: three remarkable families whose lives become entwined with Henry Ford, Harry Houdini, J.P. Morgan, Evelyn Nesbit, Sigmund Freud, and Emiliano Zapata.
Ragtime: Roman
Bine aţi venit în America începutului de secol XX, unde ragtime-ul stabileşte ritmul.
Ragtime explains ragtime music, examines the lives of its practitioners, looks at the debate that the music engendered, and probes the history of the genre.