Ragtime

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.