Scott Joplin and the Age of Ragtime

Ray Argyle (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

231 Seiten

2009
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7864-4376-5 (ISBN)

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At the turn of the 20th century, Scott Joplin struggled on the margins of society to play a pivotal role in the creation of ragtime music. His brief life and tragic death encompassed a tumultuous time that signaled the arrival of modern music, culture, and technology. This biography follows Joplin's life from the brothels and bars of St Louis.

At the turn of the twentieth century, Scott Joplin struggled on the margins of society to play a pivotal role in the creation of ragtime music. His brief life and tragic death encompassed a tumultuous time of changes in modern music, culture, and technology.

This biography follows Joplin's life from the brothels and bars of St. Louis to the music mills of Tin Pan Alley as he introduced a syncopated, lively style to classical piano.

The late Ray Argyle was a journalist and media consultant. His articles appeared in such magazines as Reader's Digest, France Today, and World War II History. He lived in Kingston, Ontario.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Prelude

Part I—Breaking All the Rules: The 1890s

1. A Medley for the Fair: A Time to Start Raggin’ It

2. My Kind of Town: Hot Nights in the City

3. The Making of the Legend: A Boy and a Banjo

4. Marching to a Ragtime Tune

Part II—The Music Makers Play Main Street: The 1900s

5. Writing in Ragtime

6. Tin Pan Alley and All That Jazz: Footloose in “Black Bohemia”

7. They All Played Ragtime: Scott Joplin and Irving Berlin—A Case of Plagiarism?

8. The Girls of Ragtime and the Cult of Celebrity: Murder, Passion and Honor

Part III—The Dream That Wouldn’t Die: The 1910s

9. Dancing in Ragtime

10. The Censors and the Erotic Life

11. Reporting in Ragtime

12. Dreaming of Treemonisha

Part IV—After the Rag: The Finale

13. Little Mary and the Little Tramp: Ragtime Partners of the Silent Screen

14. The Rites of Spring: The Martyred Saint of the Ragtime Era

15. Ragtime in Revival

16. Echoes of the Music: We’re All Still Playing Ragtime

The Life and Times of Scott Joplin

Scott Joplin’s Compositions

Sources of Quotations

Appendix: Ragtime in the Newspapers

Bibliography

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.4.2009
Zusatzinfo	16 photos, appendix, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	318 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Jazz / Blues
ISBN-10	0-7864-4376-6 / 0786443766
ISBN-13	978-0-7864-4376-5 / 9780786443765
Zustand	Neuware