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Ragtime
Printed, not sang
Rag vs Ragtime
Ragtime is compositional, ragging is a performance style
First published ragtime piece
Mississippi Rag by William Krell, 1897
Piano Production Increases in what year?
1890-1909
All-time high for rag compositions in what year?
1909
Cabinet player piano was invented in what year?
1897
Half the pianos in the U.S. were produced in what year?
1919
Scott Hayden
Student of Joplins
John Stark
Music publisher from Sedalia
New Orleans growth via Louisiana Purchase?
Lifting of trade restrictions, population growth in New Orleans, $200,000,000 of freight via steamboat
Post Civil War effects on New Orleans
Boom subsides, trains took over steamboats, 2% population dies (yellow fever)
Down sides of New Orleans
Below sea level, no sewage (until 1892), high mosquitos & roaches, high disease risk, foreign born population declines, mortality rate =56%
What was New Orleans nickname?
The City of Sin
What was the “Red Light District”?
The birthplace of jazz
Donald Marquis did what?
Interviewed in Storyville and found no musicians played in the R.L. District, but they played pianos
Spasm Bands
Groups made up of hodge podge instruments: gourds, cigar boxes, pipes, etc.
