In the post-Civil War era, the cruel breath of slavery and the aborted plan of Reconstruction still hung over the American South. But in the Joplin home, banjo and fiddle music filled the family’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 ...

Editor's Note: The historical photos in this story feature a variety of dances inspired by music from the 20th century. I must have been 7 or 8 when I first heard Scott Joplin's "The Entertainer" in ...

Maple Leaf Rag; Elite Syncopations; Bethena -A Concert Waltz; Combination March; The Entertainer - A Ragtime Two Step; The Cascades - A Rag; Cleopha - March And Two Step; The Ragtime Dance; The ...

Charleston Rag; Alexander's Ragtime Band; Maple Leaf Rag; The Red Rose Rag; What You Goin' To Do When The Rent Comes Round? (Rufus Rastus Johnson Brown); Cascades; Bennie Badoo; If You Like A Me; The ...

Editor's Note: The historical photos in this story feature a variety of dances inspired by music from the 20th century. Like pretty much every other piano student in America, I set about learning how ...