Jackson - They All Played Ragtime

The True Story of an American Music

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"THEY   ALL   PLAYED RAGTIME

by Rudi Blesh and Harriet Janis

Out of the honkytonks, saloons, and bordellos of Sedalia and St. Louis there began to come, in the late 1890's, a new sort of Negro and Negro-white music. Soon to be called ragtime—and under that name to sweep the world—it brought a new spirit and a new rhythm into American popular music.

In this yeasty and vibrant book the true story of an American music and the stories of the men who made it what it was have been told by Rudi Blesh (author of the classic history of jazz, Shining Trumpets) and Harriet Janis, well-known writer on modern art. The co-authors obtained their material both on the spot and by library research, but mostly through interviews with the remaining survivors of ragtime days. At once a contribution to American history and a fitting memorial to remarkable men, They All Played Ragtime is also a summons to save, before it is too late, an American expression in danger of being lost.

With lists of published ragtime pieces, gramophone records (both cylinder and disc), and player-piano rolls.

With 44 illustrations and the complete score of Maple Leaf Rag."