Scott Joplin and the Age of Ragtime - the Book

The Untold Story of How Scott Joplin and an Amazing Generation of Musicians, Artists, Writers and Thinkers Changed the Culture of the World

 McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, Box 611, Jefferson, NC 28640

www.mcfarlandpub.com

ISBN 9768-0-7864-4376-5

222 pp US $35.00 Paperback

c. 2009 Ray Argyle

May be ordered online: www.amazon.com, www.barnesandnoble.com, www.mcfarlandpub.com or leading book dealers.

CONTENTS

PART I – Breaking All the Rules: The 1890s

1.  A Medley for the Fair

2.  My Kind of Town

3.  The Making of the Legend

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

7.  They All Played Ragtime

8.  The Girls of Ragtime – the First Celebrities

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

14. The Rites of Spring

15. Ragtime in Revival

16. Echoes of the Music

The Life and Times of Scott Joplin

Scott Joplin’s Compositions

Sources of Quotations

Appendix: Ragtime in the Newspapers

Bibliography

Index