An Introduction to America’s Music

CHAPTER 10 | THE RISE OF RAGTIME 239 Sedalia was a railroad hub with a thriving community at the center of the region’s commerce ...

240 PART 2 | FROM THE CIVIL WAR THROUGH WORLD WAR I CD 2.2 Listening Guide 10.1 Maple Leaf Rag^ SCOTT JOPLIN Listen & Refl e ...

CHAPTER 10 | THE RISE OF RAGTIME 241 Piano manufacturing in the United States, already a healthy industry in the nineteenth cent ...

242 PART 2 | FROM THE CIVIL WAR THROUGH WORLD WAR I value of education, her emphasis on self-reliance fully in sympathy with the ...

CHAPTER 10 | POPULAR SONG AND DANCE IN THE RAGTIME ERA 243 K A couple in typical cakewalk pose graces the cover of Scott Joplin’ ...

244 PART 2 | FROM THE CIVIL WAR THROUGH WORLD WAR I with the winners receiving a cake or some other prize. Long parodied in min- ...

CHAPTER 10 | POPULAR SONG AND DANCE IN THE RAGTIME ERA 245 Tilzer uses a rag-derived syncopated motive to lend a slightly tentat ...

246 PART 2 | FROM THE CIVIL WAR THROUGH WORLD WAR I melody, and hum it out to something defi nite.” Unable to read or write musi ...

CHAPTER 10 | POPULAR SONG AND DANCE IN THE RAGTIME ERA 247 military band, backs up the singer with an arrangement that sticks cl ...

248 PART 2 | FROM THE CIVIL WAR THROUGH WORLD WAR I date: 1911 performers: Billy Murray, vocal, with studio orchestra genre: rag ...

CHAPTER 10 | POPULAR SONG AND DANCE IN THE RAGTIME ERA 249 savages, the illiterate negroes and the patients in our lunatic asy- ...

250 PART 2 | FROM THE CIVIL WAR THROUGH WORLD WAR I tango. They popularized these dances fi rst as exhibition dancers at society ...

CHAPTER 10 | POPULAR SONG AND DANCE IN THE RAGTIME ERA 251 date: 1914 performers: The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra; Rick Benjamin, ...

252 PART 2 | FROM THE CIVIL WAR THROUGH WORLD WAR I most salient difference between major and minor) in a fashion that suggests ...

CHAPTER 10 | FURTHER LISTENING 253 FURTHER READING Badger, Reid. A Life in Ragtime: A Biography of James Reese Europe. New York: ...

TIMELINE: 1917–1945 1917 The Original Dixieland Jazz Band brings New Orleans jazz to New York 1920 Mamie Smith records “Crazy Bl ...

PART THREE I n the years from World War I through World War II, expansions in communi- cations technolog y—phonograph, radio, an ...

256 D espite the economic and educational advances won by some African Americans by the turn of the twentieth century, many othe ...

CHAPTER 11 | THE BLUES 257 rooted in folk culture came to be earmarks of blues performance. First, blues involves a fl exible ap ...

258 PART 3 | FROM WORLD WAR I THROUGH WORLD WAR II An enterprising businessman as well as a musician, Handy was his own publishe ...