DULUTH — Max Morath, a practitioner and proponent of ragtime music who became a public television pioneer, died Monday morning at age 96. Max Morath, in a publicity photo from his years of national ...

All over Duluth this weekend, musicians and audiences will be celebrating the American precursor to jazz, ragtime music, courtesy of the Lake Superior Ragtime Society and its annual Ragtime Festival. ...

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BLAMING MUSIC FOR social ills— especially violence—is nothing new. As early as the turn of the century, ragtime music was seen as the cause of everything from race riots to domestic violence to ...

American ragtime, a precursor of early jazz, is a musical style that enjoyed immense popularity in the late 1800s through World War I. Ragtime was coined for its "ragged," syncopated rhythms that ...

At the turn of the 20th century, ragtime music was all the rage. It was music to dance to as well as music to pass on oral traditions. Created by recently freed Blacks who couldn’t then read or write ...

Friday afternoon’s People’s Health Economy Hall Tent set by Lars Edegran and the New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra featured charmingly vintage music, originally popular from the late 1890s through the ...

Looking up at a grand piano on the concert hall stage, the third grade students who filed into Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi's Performing Arts Center on Tuesday weren't sure if they were allowed ...