Related Resources

Library of Congress Web Resources

• "The Wagon," a ragtime piece from the Library of Congress' Gordon Collection
  aj.sunback.homes/folklife/Gordon/sideBbandB4.html
• Performances and demonstrations by Mrs. Byron Coffin, Sr., from California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties, on American Memory
  "Molly Dear" played in ragtime style
  Barbary Coast ragtime piano tune "Irish American Rag"
  "Popularity," A ragtime march by Jimmy Blyler
  Comments made by Mrs. Byron Coffin, Sr., regarding ragtime performances in vaudeville
  How a vaudeville piano player taught her how to "rag" the song "Sleep, Baby, Sleep" to turn it into a piece called "Dardanella"
• African-American sheet music 1850-1920, from Brown University
• Ragtime dance videos from An American Ballroom Companion, on American Memory
• Historic Sheet Music 1850-1920, from Duke University
• Historic Sheet Music 1800-1922

Related Web Sites

• Scott Joplin International Ragtime FoundationExternal
• The Lester S. Levy Collection of sheet music at Johns Hopkins UniversityExternal
• Indiana University sheet musicExternal
• University of Colorado sheet music, ragtime collectionExternal
• Northern Virginia Ragtime SocietyExternal
• Ragtime Press: ragtime/traditional jazz calendar of events and festivals External
• The Mississippi RagExternal. Published from 1973-2006, link is to Wayback Machine crawl dated JUne 13, 2006.
• West Coast Ragtime SocietyExternal

Selected Print Bibliography

• Berlin, Edward A. King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and His Era. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
• _______. "On Ragtime: Scott Joplin's Treemonisha," Center for Black Music Research Digest 13/2 (2000): 18.
• _______. Ragtime: A Musical and Cultural History. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1980.
• _______. Reflections and Research on Ragtime. New York: Institute for Studies in American Music, Brooklyn College, 1987.
• Blesh, Rudi, and Harriet Janis. They All Played Ragtime. New York: Oak Publications, 1971.
• Carew, Roy J. "Reminiscing in Ragtime," Jazz Journal 27/11 (1964): 8.
• Fisher, Larry. "What is Ragtime? Is It Really Jazz?," Jazz Research Papers 7 (1987): 65.
• Frew, Tim. Scott Joplin and the Age of Ragtime. New York: Friedman/Fairfax Publishers, 1996.
• Hasse, John Edward, ed. Ragtime: Its History, Composers, and Music. New York: Schirmer, 1985.
• Hitchcock, H. Wiley. Music in the United States: A Historical Introduction. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1969.
• Kenney, William Howland, III. "James Scott and the Culture of Classic Ragtime," American Music 9/2 (1991): 149.
• Jasen, David A. Black Bottom Stomp: Eight Masters of Ragtime and Early Jazz. New York: Routledge, 2002.
• ________. "Ragtime: A Re-evaluation," Jazz Journal 21/4 (1968): 22.
• ________. "Ragtime Explained," Storyville 37 (1971): 4.
• Jasen, David A. and Gene Jones. That American Rag: The Story of Ragtime from Coast to Coast. New York: Schirmer, 2000.
• Jasen, David A. and Trebor Jay Tichenor. Rags and Ragtime: A Musical History. New York: Seabury Press, 1978.
• Laird, Ross. Tantalizing Tingles: A Discography of Early Ragtime, Jazz, and Novelty Syncopated Piano Recordings, 1889-1934. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995.
• Massey, Drew. "Unifying Characteristics in Classic Ragtime," Indiana Theory Review 22/2 (2001): 27.
• Morath, Max, and Diane Fay Skomars. Max Morath: The Road to Ragtime. Virginia Beach, VA: Donning Company, 1999.
• Rust, Brian. "Ragtime on Records," Storyville 27 (1970): 110.
• Schafer, William J., and Johannes Riedel. The Art of Ragtime: Form and Meaning of an Original Black American Art. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1973.
• Schuller, Gunther. Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development. New York: Oxford University Press, 1968.
• Tallmadge, William H. "Ben Harney: The Middlesborough Years, 1890-93," American Music 13/2 (1995): 167.
• Waldo, Terry. This is Ragtime. New York: Da Capo, Press, 1991.