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Very biased, negative portrayal of American history
The single most exciting thing about The 1910s: From World War I to Ragtime Music is the title of the book.Stephen Feinstein's writing is choppy, about what I would expect from a fifth grade research paper, and he jumps from one topic to the next with little or no transition.In 55 pages of text & pictures about a decade that includes the fall of the Russian Empire, the First World War, the Russian Revolution and so much more, Feinstein chooses to spend 3 full pages on boxing and another full page on a horse race.

In his haste to cram in as much as possible, Feinstein frequently mentions things he never bothers to either explain or illustrate.Thus he speaks about the hobble skirt and the suffragette suit, but the accompanying illustrations show neither.He devotes an entire paragraph to Marcel Duchamp's painting "Nude Descending a Staircase", but no illustration is provided.

Worst of all, the book is very slanted.Almost every time he mentions white Americans he first applies the adjective "racist"and most of the events that he includes in the book reflect this belief.Often inappropriate for school aged children, this book includes pictures of KKK members from the 60s and states that Jack Johnson, a black boxer,"displayed the kind of talent most African Americans longed for.He flaunted his talent and his controversial relationships with white women, to the disgust of many racist white Southerners."

There are no positive events associated with white Americans or America as a nation in this book other than the founding of the Girl Scouts by Juliette Gordon Low.(The illustration is of someone else.)

All in all, not a series we will be using in my classroom.
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Picnickers will enjoy these easy-to-prepare recipes fromthe grand summer music festivals of the United States and Canada. Therecipes are created by the inns, restaurants, and caterers who makedelicious portable meals for festival crowds. The musical recording ofa dozen ragtime classics is performed by the Pickles and PeachesRagtime Orchestra. ... Read more

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Great easy one page recipes that can be made in advance.
This is a wonderful cookbook with easy one page recipes that can be made in advance.The foods are served at room temperature so there is no cooking at the last minute.This cookbook is not only handy for picnics but also for luncheons or any time you want to prepare delicious and easy recipes ahead of time.And as an added bonus a CD or cassette is included which plays classic ragtime music. ... Read more

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A personal, and sometimes controversial, selection by three jazz critics of the "best" 250 jazz records - mostly LP collections of 78 rpm originals - from the earliest roots of music to the beginnings of the modern jazz era. Each record is placed in its musical context and reviewed in some depth. For each disc, full details of personnel and recording dates and locations are given. ... Read more

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A great, but not current, guide to recorded jazz
The first volume of the Essential Jazz Records (I'm not sure if the second volume ever appeared) is a very strong guide to early jazz on a number of accounts. Perhaps the most important reason for its succes is the fact thatthe three authors are sufficiently alike in their predilections for thebook to be cohesive, but are sufficiently particular in their passions fortheir to be a wide net as they attempt to gather in "the essentialjazz recordings."There are enough recordings here to support thetitle, and they are spread over a wide enough stylistic range (from Africanmusic, to field recordings of African American performers, to blues to theearliest jazz through swing to Charlie Parker's earliest recordings) sothat no one will find any gaping holes.These three reviewers togetherprobably present a better feel for the breadth and beauty of early jazzthan any of the dozens of guides I have read. Anyone possessing all ofthese records would certainly feel satisfied they had captured the essenceof early jazz. Another fine thing about this collection of reviews is thekeen insights they offer into the recodings themselves. I have often foundmyself returning to recordings on my shelf and listening to them with newears in response to something written in this book. I do not always sharethe views of these British jazz experts, but they do certainly inspirereevaluation. The fault that many will find with the book is that theparticular recordings listed here are all long-since-disappeared LPs. Manyof the major label recordings have reappeared in pretty much the same formon CD, but some have not. Nevertheless, almost all the music here isavailable somewhere. By using this book as a guide to the music one shouldbe looking for, and another guide to help decide which reissue might havethe best remastering, etc., the explorer of early jazz won't go wrong. ... Read more

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A Genuinely Good Book
This is a good publication for some lesser-known rags that can othewise be very difficult to find. Among the more well-known pieces are SJ's Fig Leaf Rag, Rose Leaf Rag and Searchlight Rag and James Scott's Grace and Beauty. There are, however, only a few challenges in this book, and they mainly come from my personal favourite, The Entertainer's Rag. This book is small, but well worth your money.

Rip Roarin' Fun Enclosed
The first follow up to the three larger Dover editions of collected ragtime, this is the one that really smokes, and has rags that simply will not be ignored. Not only are three Joplin greats part of the package, but the well known Dill Pickles, Wild Cherries, Temptation Rag, the incomparable Entertainer's Rag, and Scott's masterpiece, Grace and Beauty. You can find many of them on my site as well, if you want to hear them first. The three Joplin pieces alone would run in the hundreds of dollars in today's thriving collectible sheet music market. So if you can deal with the covers not printed in color, you'll be duly entertained, and hopefully entertaining, when perusing the contents of this book that you should be buying instead of just reading this rambling review!!!

A very good addition to your Ragtime music collection
If you enjoy playing Ragtime music and can play any of Scott Joplin's Rags, then you should enjoy these.The selections are all within the playing ability of the moderately advanced performer and can be easily mastered.David Jasen did a great job selecting works that had not been included in other books.He added 24 new Rags to my collection of over 400 Rags in nine books, the only duplication being "Grace and Beauty" by James Scott.The three Rags by Joplin did not appear in "Scott Joplin Collected Piano Works" because the copyright holder would not allow it.Thank goodness that has changed. ... Read more

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Rhythm rules!
What makes a historical novel work for me is that the story as presented could not take place at any other time or place in history than where it is. Too many times in recent years, I've stopped reading because the characters are not sensible of their time in history, or the clothing or manners or locale or vocabulary just don't match the time and place. It can't happen there just because the author says it does. To me, that indicates a lazy author and/or editor, and the result is simply not worth my time as a reader.

The RAGTIME KID by Larry Karp is an absolutely perfect example of everything as it should be. There are a sprinkling of real people, so cleverly mixed with characters created by the author that the the two groups are virtually indistinguishable from each other. It's true I was not in Sedalia Missouri in the summer of 1889, but I can't believe it was one bit different from that location as described a century by Mr. Karp.

I know the music descriptions are accurate as well as the clothing, and I'm quite certain that the social history regarding the Civil War and left-over feelings regarding blacks and whites and their interactions with each other are presented exactly as they really were at that time. (Unhappily, as a nation, we still haven't progressed very far from too many of the ignorant opinions expressed by some very intolerant persons in this book.)

The secret to good ragtime is that it must be rendered slowly. That advice pertains to this novel as well. If you follow that advice while reading it, you will afford yourself innumerable pleasures as they expose themselves slowly, a layer at a time.

This is also a mystery novel, in addition to being a dandy historical tale, and all the clues are right there in front of one's eyes. This is where reading slowly and savoring it as you go will serve the reader well. Read too fast, and you'll miss out on myriad clues that will leave you asking 'where did *that* come from?'

Scott Joplin was a gentleman of great talent and intelligence. He was also dark-skinned, and that fact alone could easily have negated every other facet of his existence, had it not been for fair-minded persons who gave him the oppportunity to be himself. He was very capable of playing the 'classical' music of his time, by the pre-eminent European composers -- Beethoven, Liszt, Chopin and others. But he wanted to join their ranks by creating a new genre -- classic ragtime. In spite of the opposition he encountered, he did just that, as exemplified by his music that lives on, a century after he wrote it.

Of course, Joplin wasn't the only creator of ragtime music, but his particular style may be the best-known today. Fortunately, some of the events that unfold in this scintillating novel didn't really happen, afater all, or we might not know the music of Scott Joplin at all. We would all be the poorer, had that happened. Also fortunately, Mr. Joplin had the great good fortune to encounter people of foresight who could see past the color of his skin to the great talent that lay within, and were willing to promote both the man and his music.

This is, without question, one of the very best books I've read in a long, long time. I'll recommend it highly to readers of historical or mystery novels -- as well as those who just simply like to read, period. It will more than repay the time you spend -- all the more so for reading slowly.

... I couldn't put the book down!
THE RAGTIME KID is a historical mystery based on actual people and events surrounding Scott Joplin's composition and publication of The Maple Leaf Rag in Sedalia, Missouri in 1899. The story is told through the eyes of Brun Campbell, a young white piano player who hears Scott Joplin's "colored" Ragtime music and becomes obsessed with it and the composer. He leaves his home to study piano with Joplin in Sedalia and becomes involved in a murder case and an interracial struggle for control of the black composer's music.

Until I read this book, I knew little about Joplin or Ragtime music, but I found this book fascinating. Karp has done a wonderful job of bringing to life a time and place that seems very distant to many us now. Karp's Sedalia is a turbulent mixture of blacks and whites with strongly held feelings about the desired relations of the races - former Union and Confederate soldiers, freed slaves, freeborn blacks, abolitionists, and KKK members all live in this small town. And when Scott Joplin, a talented, educated black man, refuses to sell the rights to his music cheaply to a white man, it is like putting a match to a powder keg.

The thing I found so interesting about this book was the amount of historical fact that Karp has used in the story. He has basically created the mystery to suit and explain the fantastic and unprecedented events of 1899. While he did create several fictional characters for the story, Karp populated Sedalia with many of its actual inhabitants and businesses. Those of you who know more about Ragtime than I did may already know that Brun Campbell isn't a fictional character, that he did study with Joplin in 1899, and was a professional musician for much of his life. Me? I was surprised.

While the resolution of the mystery is a little too sensational to ring true, Karp's exploration of the motivations of the different historical characters is a delightful study of conflict and compromise. Frankly, I couldn't put the book down because I wanted to find out how these real-life people from long ago turned out.

Favorite character? Dr. Walter Overstreet. Did I guess it? Mostly. Will I read another? This is the first book of a Ragtime trilogy and the quality of Karp's writing and the ability to draw in the reader makes this a definite yes. I have to know how it ends!

Larry Karp's latest book
I've just re-read Larry Karp's The Ragtime Kid, and just as you shouldn't play ragtime too fast,you shouldn't read Karp's book too fast, either, lest you miss the music of his prose and the nuances of the stories he tells.
In this, his latest book, it's 1899, and young piano player Brun Campbell has run away from his rural home in Oklahoma to Sedalia, Missouri.He's only just heard ragtime for the first time, and hopes to learn this new music from the master himself, Scott Joplin.Arriving in Sedalia, and looking for a room for the night, he stumbles, literally, upon the body of a woman, and picks up two objects that will become vital to the solution of her murder.He finds employment at a music store, and begins studying with Joplin, but when a man he knows is innocent is arrested, Brun is, however unwillingly, drawn into the search for the real murderer.
Though Sedalia is a town filled with music, it is only 30 years since the end of the War Between the States, and racism is very much a part of this story. Joplin insists on being taken seriously as a musician, and receiving royalties on the sheet music which will bear his name as composer, an unprecedented demand for the times.Thus, another plot line develops, as Joplin pursues his ambitions despite some unprincipled and amoral adversaries.
The characters here are a mixture of real, from Joplin and Campbell and other musical figures,and fictional, to some of the townspeople.In skin color, they are black and they are white, and in character they are black and white, as well, but the two categories do not necessarily overlap.Brun himself is a fifteen-year-old, a musical Huck Finn in some ways, coming of age in a world more complex than he ever imagined, and he's learning, at first hand, what black and white are all about.As events unfold, Karp vividly captures the sheer awfulness of racial (and other) bias as it was then.
Just as there are two plot lines, there are two narrative voices here, speaking in a gentle counterpoint.One voice is someone who knows Brun and tells his part of the story, occasionally noting that "Brun once told [him]" about one event or another.The other voice is an omniscient third-person narrator, who recounts Joplin's story, and the ongoing search for the murderer of the woman whose body Brun found.As Brun's music lessons commence, his plot and Joplin's intertwine, connected by some unscrupulous music promoters, and by his own efforts to absolve the innocent man.
All the characters, and some of them are surprising, are vividly realized, and they allspeak very much in their own voices. Those voices, moreover, are often eloquent.Early in the book, Joplin tells Brun that ragtime is like "a bright sunny day, just a perfect day, but . . . sooner or later, the lovely day will have to end." Even more moving is a grieving father's lament for the brutal death of his son, which he knows will not be investigated:"[We] was born slaves, and now we been set free, but I don't see the leas' difference.White men kill us on the plantation, they kill us now, an' it's no matter."
From the geography of Sedalia to its weather, the sense of place in the novel is intense.It's a book that takes place in a hot Missouri summer, when the air is "close to drinkable," and we breathe in that heat and humidity as we follow Brun through the city.More characters appear, his life becomes more complicated, and as he puzzles out the solution to the murder, the action leads up to a triple denouement.First there's a violent confrontation with some brutal men, followed by an even more suspenseful encounter which culminates in the unmasking of a murderer.Then, in a shocking turnaround, Brun's own "lovely day" is over, and his life moves in a new direction.
The Ragtime Kid is a scrupulously researched look at a time in America's musical and social past, a fiction that can, as Karp notes in the concluding pages of his book, tell "a truth more striking and wondrous than any historical reality."It's a book written with humor (and not a little irony), with occasional pathos, and always with generosity . Listen to some Joplin while you read it

Ragtime, Racism, and Murder
Larry Karp writes books. He doesn't just write genre fiction; he writes each work as an individual, well-crafted, offbeat narration. Even in his Music Box series, published by the now-defunct Write Way, all three novels were entirely singular, and unique. So, too, is *The Ragtime Kid*, an outstanding piece of historical intrigue that focuses on the origins of ragtime music and is written within the murder mystery/crime literature category of fiction.

Dr. Karp is a particularly fine writer, and his prose shines, but here, the story itself--and the characters--truly dominate.

The protagonist of the book, young Brun Campbell, is so drawn by the allure of the new music craze, ragtime, that he runs away from home to study with the great Scott Joplin in Sedalia, Missouri. Just off the train, Brun stumbles over the body of a woman, Then, not long after, he has himself a job and becomes a student of the elegant black composer, Joplin, who very well might be a homicide suspect.

Another great theme of the book is American racism. Although the Civil War has been over for a good long time, those who fought in the war--and many in Sedalia did--haven't forgotten--from one side of the great divide, or the other.

Racism, ragtime, and murder are his topics, and Karp intertwines the three adroitly for the novel's readers, then throws in a little romance as a sort of seasoning. Male/female relationships are as complex in The Ragtime Kid as they are in real life.

But perhaps the element that tickled me most about the book is the fine detailing of the time and place. Karp, a longstanding ragtime enthusiast, took the Scott Joplin biography and that of the real-life Brun Campbell, and without distorting the documented facts, wove a tale of what might have occurred. Behind that marvelous foreground though lies a backdrop lending the intoxicating particulars of the time: memories of the Chicago's World Fair in 1893, a young woman eager to perform in vaudeville, a spring-powered fan to drive away the heat, and yellow streetcars providing the Sedalia citizens their transportation.

In short, Karp has created a darn good read, a compelling and literate story that entertains on many levels--as a novel, as a mystery, and as a chronicle of one stage in our national history--a tale peopled by very real and believable characters.

*The Ragtime Kid* proves itself to be both a fun and an enlightening pastime.

G. Miki Hayden, author of *Writing the Mystery* and *The Naked Writer*.

history of ragtime music makes this book outstanding
We already knew that Larry Karp was a talented mystery writer, thanks to his previous novels.This latest work shows that he can write historical fiction and make it fascinating.Even though I started the book knowing nothing about ragtime music, by the end I wanted to learn more!

His other strength is his ability to create characters that are so real, and so endearing, that the reader quickly begins to identify with and root for the protagonist(s).This makes the book a real page-turner, because you can't wait to read more about what "your" characters are doing!

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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. ... Read more

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Scott Joplin and the Age of Ragtime
In his book "Scott Joplin and the Age of Ragtime," author Ray Argyle paints a fascinating picture of an African-American musical genius in the evolution of popular American culture.

Born on a farm near the town of Marshall Texas in 1868, Joplin's was an unlikely success story forged against great odds in an era of racial prejudice.Growing up in a musical family, he mastered the banjo by age seven. His mother cleaned house for a white music teacher in return for piano lessons and eventually was able to buy young Scott the piano which launched his musical career.

Joplin's big break came when he and his "Texas Medley Quartet" played at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair.He went on to become the leading proponent and face of the ragtime era which spread across America and around the world.We owe the ever-popular Maple Leaf Rag, which, according to a contemporary, "blew the lid off the musical world," to him.

What makes this book fascinating is the author's technique of weaving what is essentially a musical story into the events of turn-of-the-century America. Race, science, politics, war are juxtapositioned with developing musical trends to form a cultural mosaic of the times.

Tragically, Joplin died in 1917 at 49, a victim of syphilis - perhaps a legacy of his time playing the piano in gritty saloons and brothels.

Scott Joplin was not only an innovative musician, he had a dignity and grace about him which helped him to overcome almost insurmountable odds. But most of all he had soul. As a result, his music, and the America musical legacy he spawned, is with us still.

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A beautiful depiction of an amazing man!
This is a non-fiction book you can actually read!It's funny, truthful, revealing, exciting and fun.Max approaches this book the way he approaches his music--with vigor and enthusiasm.The pictures have depth--you get to know Max through the photography.Would highly recommend it!

The Real Show Business
In all of the mass of literature about American entertainment, there are only a few books that give you an accurate idea of what show business is really like -- ACT ONE, by Moss Hart, THE TROUBLE WITH CINDERELLA, by ArtieShaw, ALL OF MY BEST FRIENDS, by George Burns, and the occasional passagein a star's autobiography (Sophie Tucker, Billy Rose, LittleRichard).

Now, THE ROAD TO RAGTIME has joined that select company. Thanks to Max Morath and Diane Fay Skomars, we have a document that showswhat real American show business is like in the late 20th Century trenches-- the one-man show, the community concerts circuit, the roadhouses andhonky-tonks, radio, television, and anywhere else there's an audience readyto be entertained.

Max Morath is one of America's greatest entertainers. He's one of those magical peformers who's able to get the audience in thepalm of his hand the moment he takes the stage.What's extraordinary isthat he's been able to be so successful without ever compromising theintegrity of his music.

He's a national treasure -- and this terrificbook helps us unlock it.

-- Murray HorwitzNational Public Radio

A handsome book, a thick slice of Americana in photos & text
Max Morath and Diane Skomars have created a handsome book celebrating Max's career as a channeler of American popular culture.Max loves the American present as much as he loves its past. He's been stirring themelting pot for fifty years now, mixing musical styles, fact, fiction,humor, and social observation.This book is much like a Morathconcert--that is, it is sweet, funny, and wise.Skomars' photographsgorgeously depict the world of "Present Max"--a world of fastfood, lookalike motels, freeway signs--as he travels to take "PastMax" to audiences everywhere. A beautiful evocation of Max at work andon his way to work.

Invaluable portrait of a wonderful performer and his world.
Only Max Morath and his wife, photographer Diane Skomars, could have created this book. It's a beautifully designed time capsule, a portrait ofa showman who, though he plays music from the turn of the century, is verymuch a man of the present. The iconography of the freeway -- lurid hotel,restaurant, and gas station signs -- is part of this story, as well asMax's pithy words on chocolate malts, where to sit on an airplane (on theaisle toward the front), and a thoughtful final essay called "ThinkingAbout the Music" wherein Max tells us exactly where American popularmusic came from.

Invaluable portrait of a wonderful performer and his world.
Only Max Morath and his wife, photographer Diane Skomars, could have created this book. It's a beautifully designed time capsule, a portrait ofa showman who, though he plays music from the turn of the century, is verymuch a man of the present. The iconography of the freeway -- lurid hotel,restaurant, and gas station signs -- is part of this story, as well asMax's pithy words on chocolate malts, where to sit on an airplane (on theaisle toward the front), and a thoughtful final essay called "ThinkingAbout the Music" wherein Max tells us exactly where American popularmusic came from. ... Read more

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The first serious study of the numerous African influences on the music ofScott Joplin, "King of Ragtime."A 29-page probing essay with charts andillustrations that focus on "Africanisms" in Joplin's music that have beenlargely ignored to date.The author states that despite European influences,the music is still essentially "Black" in character, and gives many examplesto demonstrate this.Rhythm is but one of the African elements treated.Because the author is an Ethnomusiclogist who has written three books onAfrican and African-related music and culture, and is also a concert pianistwho regularly gives lecture/performances on Scott Joplin's life and music,she is uniquely qualified to bring authority to this subject.To date no onehas explored the African component of Joplin's music with such thoroughness. ... Read more

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For the first time, all data for recordings of non-classical piano made for issue on disc and cylinder records prior to 1935 are brought together in this work. The majority of the listing consists of material which has never been published in any form. The volume includes piano solos, duets, trios, and quartets, as well as selected titles where a soloist is featured within a recording by a dance band or orchestra. It covers a wide variety of pianists and piano styles including ragtime, stride, novelty-syncopated, boogie, and blues. This work will be of interest to major libraries, archives, and schools of music, as well as researchers and collections. ... Read more

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TANTALIZING TINGES: A DISCOGRAPHY OF EARLY JAZZ AND NOVELTY SYNOCAPED PIANO RECORDINGS
THIS IS TRULY WHAT A DISOGRAPHY SHOULD BE REVEALING THE RECORDING SOURCE, PERSONNEL, DATES ALONG WITH LABEL, CATALOGUE NUNBER AND THE MASTER NUMBER. THIS HAS A LOT OF TITLES THAT DON'T QUITE FIT IN A JAZZ OR BLUES CATAGORY. THIS MAINLY FOCUSES ON NOVELITY PIANO SOLOS AND RAGTIME MUSIC LONG FORGOTTEN. A MUST FOR ANY ZEZ CONFREY OR LEE SIMS FAN! I WOULD LIKE TO SEE MORE BOOKS LIKE THIS IN PRINT. ... Read more

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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. It collects for the first time entries on all the important composers and performers, and descriptions of their works; a complete listing of all known published ragtime compositions, even those self-published and known only in single copies; and a complete discography from the cylinder era to today. It also represents the culmination of a lifetime’s research for its author, considered to be the foremost scholar of ragtime and early twentiethh-century popular music. Rare photographs accompany most entries, taken from the original sheets, newspapers, and other archival sources.

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Jasen's Ragtime Encyclopedia: Essential Reference For The Historian and Collector
What is Ragtime? David A. Jasen gives the definitive musical definition as well as the history of Ragtime from it's beginning to the present day in his latest book "Ragtime An Encyclopedia, Discography, and Sheetography" published by Routledge. It's 550 pages, hardcover, 8 ½" X 11".

Jasen describes in detail the categories of Ragtime. From the Early Folk Rags, The Joplin Tradition or Classic Ragtime, Popular Ragtime, Advanced Ragtime, Novelty Ragtime, Stride Ragtime, and Jelly Roll Morton's Ragtime. Ragtime's original heyday as well as its Revivals are covered up to the present day.

The book is divided into 4 primary sections. The first section contains the Encyclopedia entries. You can look up Composer, Performer, and Publisher Profiles, Ragtime Compositions with musical descriptions and other interesting related facts. There are over 100 images of rare photos and artifacts from the Ragtime era. Including a signed contract between Scott Joplin and his publisher John Stark for his landmark composition "The Maple Leaf Rag". There are images of Sheet Music, Record and Piano Roll Labels, Period Advertising, Composers, Performers, and Places of historical interest.

As a serious collector of Ragtime Sheet Music, Piano Rolls and Records, I really appreciate the next three sections of the book. The perennial question for the collector is "What's out there to collect?"For the performer it might be "What tune can I perform that nobody else has done or may even know about?" Stamp collectors have their Scott's Catalog to see what's possible to collect. We Ragtimers have a Discography, Ragtime Piano Rollography, and Sheetography, thanks to Professor Jasen, the first to have published them. I check off the items I own, and then I can see the items I need.

Appendix 1Rags On Record: A Discography

"The intention of this discography is to identify all commercially released discs of 78s, 45s, and LPs throughout the world since the beginning of Ragtime recording in 1897." The discography lists the Compositions alphabetically with the Composer, followed by Performers, Record Speeds, Record Companies and Number, and Year of release.

Appendix 2Ragtime Piano Rollography

There are Ragtime Compositions that were never published in sheet music form, or recorded on disc, as you will note from the entries in the encyclopedia. However, some compositions do turn up on Piano Roll. Some of the performances are truly extraordinary. The Rollography lists the Compositions with Composers alphabetically, then the Roll Companies and Number. If the roll is an early 65-note type it's indicated. The performer is listed if the roll is hand played.

Appendix 3Published Rags In America

There's an alphabetical list of over 2000 Published Instrumental Ragtime compositions. It lists the Composition followed by the Composer, Date, Publisher, City and State of Publication.

David A Jasen is internationally recognized as a leading authority and collector of American Popular Music. He's authored many well-received reference books on Ragtime, Early Jazz and Popular Music. He produced many sheet music folios and Records. As a Composer and Performer, The Professor captures the true essence of Ragtime. He is Professor of Media Arts at the C.W. Post campus of Long Island University, where he has been teaching for the past 35 years.

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Arranged By Mary Sallee. Titles: Alone * Eyes on Me * Fade Away * My Love * New Dawn * Right Next to the Right One * Shadow of Love * Song for You * Taking Chances * That's Just the Woman in Me * This Time * A World to Believe In. ... Read more

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As part of the Art of Acoustic Blues Guitar series, this volume showcases the songs and techniques of two of the most fundamental and exciting styles of traditional fingerstyle guitar playing. This program presents the music of the legendary Reverend Gary Davis, featuring several of his well-known songs. Woody Mann illustrates how the music of one of America's greatest guitarists offers a complete lesson in the beauty and subtleties of ragtime and gospel guitar playing. Reverend Davis was one of the most gifted and original musicians of his generation. His music represents some of the most sophisticated sounds in the world of fingerstyle guitar. Since his death in 1972, Davis's influence has continued to grow as each new generation of guitarists discovers the excitement of his music. As a teenager, Woody Man studied privately with the master. In this program, he teaches six of the Reverend's ragtime and gospel originals note-for-note, just as Davis taught him; detailing and explaining the picking techniques, chord positions, and fine points of phrasing. Woody explores syncopated picking ideas, new approaches to chords and melodies, and explains how to apply Davis's method for creating endless variations and improvisations within a song. Additionally, fingerpicking techniques taught can be applied to a variety of musical styles and genres. Near beginners to advanced players will benefit from this approach. Woody Mann had his first schooling as a teenager in the living room of Rev. Gary Davis, the now legendary gospel and ragtime guitarist. Mann soon went on to perform and record with blues masters Son House and Bukka White as well as contemporary innovators including John Fahey. He has recorded extensively, performed throughout the world, and is widely recognized as one of the world's leading teachers and transcribers of acoustic blues music, having taught countless guitarists through his popular books and videos. All levels ... Read more

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Disappointing
Kudos for what he's trying to do.They don't give you enough time to tune with the DVD.They don't explain the fingerings clearly enough.Songs are great.Not a terrible value.Worthy - but could be SO much better with SO little work.

Rev Gary Davis Tunes
Woody Mann is one of the best Guitar players in the world.
The reason why is due to his hard work and being a faithful student of Rev Gary Davis.
This is one of the best written music books for that type of music,of course it is written by one of the best.
I have studied this music for a while and studied from video dvd's and tape instruction as well as other books but this is the easiest written so far and gets right to the heart of the music without much difficulty.
I wish i could have studied this one first.
Highly recommended excellent book. Worth 10 times what i payed!!!!!!!!1 ... Read more