There was a time when pianist Tom McDermott downplayed his affinity for ragtime composer Scott Joplin. For years, ragtime suffered from an image problem, a hokey stereotype of straw hats and Shakey’s ...

"Ragtime" is a tragedy set to music. Unfortunately, the musical is also tragically out of date. Though well-staged by the Thalian Association under the direction of Michael Walton Jones, the story is ...

Jim Boston, founder of the Great Plains Ragtime Society and the Rags to Riches Festival, in Omaha. Jim Boston was a 20-year-old student at Iowa State University in Ames, walking back to the dorm from ...

Johnny Maddox, a legendary ragtime pianist who was a mainstay at the Diamond Belle Saloon for 16 years, died Tuesday in Gallatin, Tennessee. He was 91. Maddox had an illustrious career, first taking ...

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 ...

When he was 17, Adam Souza got the OK from his mother to leave his hometown of Killingworth and drive with friends to New Haven so they could take the train to New York City to see a Broadway matinee.

BLAMING MUSIC FOR social ills— especially violence—is nothing new. As early as the turn of the century, ragtime music was seen as the cause of everything from race riots to domestic violence to ...

Friday is the anniversary of Scott Joplin’s death in 1917. The story of this Black master of the ragtime genre can seem like one that never got far beyond the starting gate and ended with a sad ...

Strolling up Main Street U.S.A. at Disneyland, one can’t help but hear the sounds of ragtime music drifting from the Refreshment Corner where there sits a pianist tinkling the ivories on one of the ...

It’s standing-room-only on a late February afternoon at tony Occidental College in Los Angeles, where some 200 students are about to learn that genius can come in unexpected forms. The guest lecturer ...