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 ...

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 is one of the legends of the piano canon – every aspiring pianist under the sun has banged away at ‘The Entertainer’. But how much do you know about the King of Ragtime? You only need to ...

The king of ragtime published his hit tune 120 years ago. Pianist Lara Downes believes the piece helped shape the future of American music. Reconsidering Scott Joplin's 'The Entertainer' Editor's Note ...

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