Scott Joplin and the Age of Ragtime

Contents

• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments     
• Prelude     
• Part I—Breaking All the Rules: The 1890s      
• 1. A Medley for the Fair: A Time to Start Raggin’ It     
• 2. My Kind of Town: Hot Nights in the City     
• 3. The Making of the Legend: A Boy and a Banjo     
• 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: Footloose in “Black Bohemia”     
• 7. They All Played Ragtime: Scott Joplin and Irving Berlin—A Case of Plagiarism?     
• 8. The Girls of Ragtime and the Cult of Celebrity: Murder, Passion and Honor     
• 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: Ragtime Partners of the Silent Screen     
• 14. The Rites of Spring: The Martyred Saint of the Ragtime Era     
• 15. Ragtime in Revival     
• 16. Echoes of the Music: We’re All Still Playing Ragtime     
• The Life and Times of Scott Joplin     
• Scott Joplin’s Compositions     
• Sources of Quotations     
• Appendix: Ragtime in the Newspapers     
• Bibliography     
• Index