Rags and Ragtime

A Musical History

David A. Jasen, Trebor Jay Tichenor

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9780486144573
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Music History & Criticism

`A work for all time . . . (with) a tremendous amount of historical information which has never been published. . . . It will be the standard text and reference work in the ragtime field.` — Rag Times.
This well-known, highly praised book is the definitive history of ragtime music and its composers. Both authors are widely celebrated composers, performers, collectors, historians, and critics of ragtime music. With great enthusiasm and expertise, they trace the growth and diversification of ragtime from its earliest beginnings in the late nineteenth century through its heyday in the Folk, Classic, Popular, Novelty, and Stride Ragtime periods to its current revival.
Forty-eight major composers are discussed, including Scott Joplin, Zez Confrey, Jelly Roll Morton, Fats Waller, and many other greats. In addition, 800 important rags are profiled, most of them bearing the carefree titles that were part of the tradition, titles like `Canned Corn Rag,` `Bantam Step,` `Too Much Raspberry,` `Ragging the Scale,` and `Red Onion Rag.` Each profile includes date of publication, original publisher, a discography, and a commentary of the unique character and appeal of each rag.
Over 100 photographs, many of them rare, illuminate this lively chronicle, along with reproductions of original sheet music and many other items of interest from the authors' personal archives.
`Jasen and Tichenor have no peers in ragtime knowledge. . . .They are the two unchallengeable authorities in the field of ragtime history, personalities, and musical forms.` — The Classic Rag.
`A combination encyclopedia/biography/history/analysis and review, it teems with what would appear to be everything the ragtime buff or casual inquirer needs or wants to know about the music that won't stand still.` — The Christian Science Monitor.
`Rags and Ragtime tells it all. There's a lot here I didn't know in pictures, music, and words.` — Eubie Blake.

INDEX

Adler, Bernie

African Pas’

African Ripples

African Suite

Aggravation Rag

Agitation Rag

Ain’t Misbehavin’

Alabama jigger

Alabama Rag

Alabama Slide

Alaskan Rag

Albright, William

Alrxander’s Ragtime Band

All Coons Look Alike To Me

All-of-a-Twist

All the Grapes

All the Money

Allen Music Co.

Allen, Thomas B.

Alpert, Pauline

Alter, Louis

Amazon Rag

American Beauty Rag

American Music Publishing Co.

Anderson, Willie

Andrews, Jimmy

Angel Food

Antiquary

Apple Jack

Apple Sass

Arcadia Peacock Orch.

Arctic Sunset

Arden, Victor

Arlington, W.

Arm Breaker, The

Armstrong, Harry

Armstrong, Louis & his Hot Seven

Arndt, Felix

Arnett-Delonais Co.

Arno, Frederick

Arnold, John & Co.

Arnold Wiley’s Rag

Arpin, John

Art of Ragtime, The

Ash, Marvin

Ashwander, Donald

Astor Place Rag Waltz

At a Georgia Camp Meeting

Atlanta Rag

Atwell, Winifred

Aufderheide, John H.

Aufderheide, May

Aunt Jemima’s Birthday,

Avenue Strut

Axtmann, William

Bacchanal Rag, The

Bachelor’s Button

Back to Life

Baked Alaska

Baker, Edythe

Ballentine, Eddie

Baltimore Blues, The

Baltimore Todolo

Banta, Frank

Bantam Step

Barber, Chris

Barber Pole Rag, The

Barber Shop Rag (Campbell)

Barber Shop Rag (Krenz)

Bargy, Roy

Barky Roll Stomp

Barton, Glen

Basie, William (Count)

Batchelder, W. K.

Baum, Gertrude

Baxter, Ted

Bee Hive

Beebe, William

Beedle-Um-Bo

Bees and Honey Rag

Behave Yourself

Belding, Harry

Bell Hop Rag, The

Ben Harney’s Ragtime Instructor

Bennett, Rube

Bennett, Theron C.

Berlin, Irving

Bernard, Al

Bernard, Mike

Bert Williams

Bethena

Bethune, Blind Thomas Greene

Biese, Paul

Big Ben

Bill Bailey, won’t You Please Come Home?

Billiken Rag

Birch, Raymond (see Johnson, Charles L.)

Bird-Brain Rag

Black and Blue Rag

Black and White Rag

Black Bawl, A

Black Beauty

Black Canary

Black Diamond

Black Diamonds Band

Black Jack Rag

Black Laugh, The

Black Mike’s Curse

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Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• I - Ragtime, as a Form and a Fad
• 2 - Early Ragtime 1897-1905
• 3 - The Joplin Tradition
• 4 - Popular Ragtime 1906–1912
• 5 - Advanced Ragtime, 1913-1917
• 6 - Novelty Ragtime 1918-1928
• 7 - Stride Ragtime
• 8 - Jelly Roll Morton
• 9 - The Ragtime Revival 1941-1978
• APPENDIX - Other Important Ragtime Composers
• INDEX
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