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Ragtime is a musical with music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and a book by Terrence McNally. It is based on the 1975 novel of the same name by E.L. Doctorow .
Until the publication of this song ragtime had been so distinctively an African-American musical genre that the occasional rag whose lyrics and cover art indicated some other ethnicity would focus instead on some other marginalized group (usually Jewish or Italian) and apply the dichotomy toward comic effect. [5]
In 1903, Stark issued a "Maple Leaf Rag Song", an arrangement of Joplin's music with words by Sydney Brown. [11] Brown's lyrics tell the story of a poor man from Accomack County, Virginia, who stumbles into a ballroom where, in spite of his anxiety over the state of his appearance, he manages to wow the crowd with the Maple Leaf Rag.
As one of the classics of ragtime, it returned to international prominence as part of the ragtime revival in the 1970s, when it was used as the theme music for the 1973 Oscar-winning film The Sting. Composer and pianist Marvin Hamlisch 's adaptation reached No. 3 on the Billboard pop chart and spent a week at No. 1 on the easy listening chart ...
Charles Leslie Johnson (December 3, 1876 - December 28, 1950) was an American composer of ragtime and popular music.He was born in Kansas City, Kansas, died in Kansas City, Missouri, and lived his entire life in those two cities.
In 1911, Roberts composed "The Junk Man Rag", but since he could not yet notate music, he elicited ragtime pianist Artie Matthews's help to create publishable sheet music. [6] In 1913, "The Junk Man Rag," a one-step, with lyrics Chris Smith and Ferd Mierisch, for Turkey Trot Opera written by Will Marion Cook . [ 15 ] "
Hitchy-Koo of 1920, October 19, 1920 – December 18, 1920; with music by Jerome Kern, book by Glen MacDonough and lyrics by Glen MacDonough and Anne Caldwell. [ 19 ] The Hitchy-Koo of 1922 began tryouts on October 10, 1922 at the Sam S. Shubert Theatre, Philadelphia , but ran for less than two weeks.
Ernest Hogan. Ernest Hogan (born Ernest Reuben Crowdus; 1865 – May 20, 1909 [1]) was the first Black American entertainer to produce and star in a Broadway show, The Oyster Man, in 1907 (shows at the African Grove Theatre preceded it by generations) and helped to popularize the musical genre of ragtime.