It was a banner year for pop music in 1974 with artists such as the Rolling Stones, John Lennon, Bad Company, Stevie Wonder, ...

Engines Podcast The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3321: Scott Joplin and Ragtime Episode: 3321 Scott Joplin persevered in creating Ragtime music as a black musician in post-Civil War America. Today, Joplin ...

When Scott Joplin’s father left the North Carolina plantation where he had been born a slave, there was one thing he wanted to hold on to: the echoes of the Negro spirituals he had heard in the fields ...

SEDALIA, Mo. (KCTV) - An annual summer music festival is set to return to Sedalia in 2025 as it honors the more than half-century-old legacy of Ragtime, where it all began. Scott Joplin Festival ...

When I first heard Scott Joplin’s “Bethena,” I was a college freshman and my friend Robert was playing it on the piano in a common room. The college’s century-old Steinway was appallingly out of tune, ...

TEXARKANA, Texas -- Texarkana native Scott Joplin, the King of ragtime exhibit and silent auction, is taking place at the Gallery at 1894 through Friday. Curator Carol Collins-Miles said the auction's ...

Scott Joplin was an early musician who transformed much of the landscape of popular music in the early 1900s. Though many details of his short life are uncertain, his impact on early American music is ...

The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra plays the syncopated sounds of silent films, vintage dance, and early musical theater, like the signature ragtime music of Scott Joplin in the overture to his masterpiece ...

Don’t Miss a Moment. Join 30,000 locals who stay current on Orlando news, culture, and events. Get Orlando Weekly’s free daily newsletter. Sign up Scott Joplin’s lost opera “Treemonisha” premieres in ...

Scott Joplin was raised in a musical family of railway laborers in Texarkana, Texas. During the late 1880s, he traveled the American South as a musician and in 1893 he went to Chicago for the World's ...

Quick: What image comes to mind when you hear the word ragtime? Probably straw hats, lemonade and your kid trying to play “The Entertainer” on the piano. But in the 1890s and 1900s, the sound of the ...

A pulsating piano solo by a black composer published 125 years ago this fall became an unexpected bestseller, drew droves of young people to the piano, and became an enduring classic of American music ...