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Library of Congress Web Resources
"The Wagon," a ragtime piece from the Library of Congress' Gordon Collection
http://www.loc.gov/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, on American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/sheetmusic/brown/
Ragtime dance videos from An American Ballroom Companion, on American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/dihtml/divideos.html
Historic Sheet Music 1850-1920, from Duke University, on American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ncdhtml/hasmhome.html
Historic Sheet Music 1800-1922, on LC Presents: Music, Theater and Dance
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cocoon/ihas/html/volcano/volcano-home.html
Related Web Sites
Scott Joplin International Ragtime Foundation
http://www.scottjoplin.org/index.htm
The Lester S. Levy Collection of sheet music at Johns Hopkins University
http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/
Indiana University sheet music
http://www.letrs.indiana.edu/s/sheetmusic/
University of Colorado sheet music, ragtime collection
http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/cgi-bin/sheetmusic.pl?Rag&titlepages&1
Northern Virginia Ragtime Society
http://www.nvrs.org/
Ragtime Press: ragtime/traditional jazz calendar of events and festivals
http://www.rtpress.com/cal.htm
The Mississippi Rag
http://mississippirag.com/
West Coast Ragtime Society
http://www.westcoastragtime.com/
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.
Last Updated: April 8, 2010