A rich history of ragtime music, covering Missouri, Mid-America, the South, the West, the Northeast and New York City. 431 pages including illustrations, Ragtime composers by birthplace, Ragtime Publications, a checklist of 2,002 published rags, select Bibliography, an index of Music Titles and a general index. Wonderful for your collection.

That American Rag: The Story of Ragtime from Coast to Coast

Arts & Photography

JASEN, David A.

Jones, Gene

Music

Schirmer Trade Books

Recorded Ragtime, 1897-1958

Archon Books

Black Bottom Stomp: Eight Masters of Ragtime and Early Jazz

Routledge

Tin Pan Alley

For nearly a century, New York's famous "Tin Pan Alley" was the center of popular music publishing in this country. It was where songwriting became a profession, and songs were made-to-order for the biggest stars. Selling popular music to a mass audience from coast-to-coast involved the greatest entertainment media of the day, from minstrelsy to Broadway, to vaudeville, dance palaces, radio, and motion pictures. Successful songwriting became an art, with a host of men and women becoming famous by writing famous songs.

Tin Pan Alley: An Encyclopedia of the Golden Age of American Song

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

"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.

Rags and Ragtime: A Musical History (Dover Books on Music)

Tichenor, Trebor Jay

Dover Publications

P.G. Wodehouse was, surprisingly, once as well known for his work in the theatre as he was for his novels. Indeed, he provided the book, contributed lyrics or adapted the translations to nearly 50 Broadway and London shows. The earliest of them, Sergeant Bruce, dates from 1904, while the last, Come on Jeeves, appeared half a century later. Here is commemorated this half-forgotten aspect of P.G. Wodehouse's career. More than 100 colour and B&amp;W illustrations from contemporary programmes, posters and photographs have been reproduced from collections in England and America.

The theatre of P.G. Wodehouse

Literature & Fiction

Batsford

Spreadin' Rhythm Around

Book by Jasen, David A, Jones, Gene

Spreadin' Rhythm Around: Black Popular Songwriters, 1880-1930

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

A lively cultural history of the music that captivated America. Beginning with Scott Joplin's million-selling hit, Maple Leaf Rag published in 1899, the authors take you on a tour of American ragtime composing and publishing. Along the way, you will read the story of hundreds of composers - men and women, black and white, young and old - who took that ragtime beat from small-town America to the stages of Broadway and Carnegie Hall - and beyond.

That American Rag! The Story of Ragtime from Coast to Coast

Pelham Grenville Wodehouse is best known as the creator of the dim-witted English gentleman Bertie Wooster and his indispensable valet, Jeeves. The definitive biography of one of the greatest literary humorists of all time.

P.G. Wodehouse: A Portrait of a Master

Omnibus Pr & Schirmer Trade Books

Stories tell of a wealthy American boy pursued by kidnappers, a young girl's attempts to influence a cricket match, a dreaded poetry contest, and the famous Swiss archer, William Tell

The Eighteen-Carat Kid, and Other Stories

Wodehouse,P.G.

British & Irish

Continuum Intl Pub Group

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