Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Max Morath, a Colorado Springs native who as a pianist and musical director championed ragtime music, and who around 1960 wrote, performed and co-produced 28 ...

All over Duluth this weekend, musicians and audiences will be celebrating the American precursor to jazz, ragtime music, courtesy of the Lake Superior Ragtime Society and its annual Ragtime Festival. ...

The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra plays the syncopated sounds of silent films, vintage dance, and early musical theater, like the signature ragtime music of Scott Joplin in the overture to his masterpiece ...

At the turn of the 20th century, ragtime music was all the rage. It was music to dance to as well as music to pass on oral traditions. Created by recently freed Blacks who couldn’t then read or write ...

Ragtime music, with its syncopated or "ragged" rhythms, is considered by many observers to be the first purely American form of popular music. Drawing on a diversity of styles, ragtime emerged from ...

As radical as rock & roll was when it first emerged in America, ragtime seemed childish to many at first, a fad that would fade quickly. Others found it threatening, and quirte possibly dangerous. To ...