Scott Joplin: Music Books Related to Joplin and Ragtime

Berendt, Joachim E. Ragtime: A Musical and Cultural History. 
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980. Reprint, Berkeley: 
University of California Press, 1984.

Berlin, Edward A. Ragtime: A Musical and Cultural History. Berkeley: 
University of California Press, 1980.

Blesh, Rudi. The Ragtime Current. New York: no publisher found, 1976.

Blesh, Rudi. Shining Trumpets. New York: Alfred Knopf, 1946.

Blesh, Rudi and Harriet Janis. They All Played Ragtime: The True 
Story of an American Music. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950. Revised 
edition, Grove Press, 1959.

Bredeson, Carmen and Ralph Thibodeau. Ten Great American Composers. 
Enslow Publishers, 2002.

Brooks, Tilford. America's Black Musical Heritage. Englewood Cliffs, 
NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1984.

Brown, S. "Negro Producers of Ragtime." In Negro Music and Art, ed. 
L. Patterson. New York: no publisher found, 1967.

Charters, Samuel B. and Leonard Kunstadt. Jazz: A History of the New 
York Scene. New York: Doubleday and Co., 1962.

Chase, Gilbert. America's Music. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1955, 1966. 
Third edition, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987.

Dizikes, John. Opera in America: A Cultural History. Cambridge: Yale 
University Press, 1993.

Gillis, F. "Hot Rhythm in Ragtime." In Music in the Americas, ed. G. 
List. Bloomington, IN: University of Indiana Press, 1967.

Handy, W.C. Negro Authors and Composers of the United States. New 
York: Handy Brothers Music Co., 1938.

Handy, W. C. Unsung Americans Sung. 2nd ed. New York: Handy Brothers 
Music Co., 1946.

Hasse, J.E., ed. Ragtime: Its History, Composers and Music. New York: 
Schirmer Books, 1985.

Jasen, David A. That American Rag : The Story of Ragtime from Coast 
to Coast. New York: Schirmer Books, 2000.

Jasen, David A. Tin Pan Alley: the Composers, the Songs, the 
Performers and Their Times; the Golden Age of American Popular Music 
from 1886 to 1956. Donald I. Fine, 1989.

Jasen, David and T. J. Tichenor. Rags and Ragtime: A Musical History. 
Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 1989.

Jones, LeRoi. Black Music. New York: W. Morrow, 1967.

Karolyi, Otto. Modern American Music: From Charles Ives to the 
Minimalists. United Kingdom: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press, 1996.

Karolyi, Otto. "Popular Music as a National Style: Gospel Song, 
Blues, Ragtime, Jazz and Tin Pan Alley." In Modern American Music. 
United Kingdom: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press, 1996.

Morgan, Thomas L. From Cakewalks to Concert Halls: an Illustrated 
History of African American Popular Music from 1895 to 1930. 
Washington, DC: Elliott & Clark, 1992.

Patterson, Lindsay. The Negro in Music and Art. New York: Publishers Co., 1967.

Peretti, Burton W. The Creation of Jazz: Music, Race, and Culture in 
Urban America. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992.

Roach, Hildred. Black American Music, Past and Present. Boston: 
Crescendo Pub., 1973. Reprints 1985, 1992. Paperback edition, Boston: 
Krieger Pub., 1994.

Saffle, Michael Benton, ed. Perspectives on American Music, 
1900-1950. New York: Garland, 2000.

Schafer, William John. The Art of Ragtime: Form and Meaning of an 
Original Black American Art. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University 
Press, 1973. Reprint, 1977.

Shaw, Arnold. Black Popular Music in America: From the Spirituals, 
Minstrels, and Ragtime to Soul, Disco, and Hip-Hop. New York: 
Schirmer Books, 1986.

Southern, Eileen. The Music of Black Americans: A History. 3rd ed. 
New York: W. W. Norton, 1997.

Waldo, Terry. This is Ragtime. New York: Hawthorne, 1976.

Waterman, Guy. "Ragtime." In The Art of Jazz: Essays on the Nature 
and Development of Jazz, ed. Martin T. Williams, pp. 11-31. New York: 
Grove Press, 1959.

Waterman, Guy.  "Ragtime." In Jazz: New Perspectives, ed. A. McCarthy 
and N. Hentoff. New York: Rinehart, 1959. Revised, 1975.

Whitmark, Isadore and Isaac Goldberg. From Ragtime to Swingtime. New 
York: L. Furman, 1939.

Woll, Allen. Black Musical Theatre: From Coontown to Dreamgirls. 
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1989.



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