Ragtime - selected bibliography

Berlin, Edward A. King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and His Era. NY: Oxford Univ. 
Press, 1994.

Berlin, Edward A. Reflections and Research on Ragtime. ISAM Monograph #24.

Berlin, Edward A. Ragtime: A Musical and Cultural History. Berkeley: UC
Press, 1980.

Blesh, Rudi and Harriet Janis. They All Played Ragtime. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 
1950, rev. 4th ed. 1971.

Brunn, H. O. The Story of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band. Baton Rouge, LA:
1960; reprint NY: 1977.

Buerkle, Jack V. and Danny Barker. Burbon Street Black: The New Orleans
Black Jazzman. NY: 1973.

Charters, Samuel B. Jazz: New Orleans: 1855-1957.  Belleville NJ: 1958.
rev. 2nd ed. 1963.

Curtis, Susan. Dancing to a Black Man's Tune: A Life of Scott Joplin. 
Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press, 1994.

Haskins, James, with Kathleen Benson. Scott Joplin: The Man Who Made 
Ragtime. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978.

Hasse, John Edward. ed. Ragtime: Its History, Composers and Music. NY:
1985.

Kernfeld, Barry, ed. The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 2vol. London: 1988.
(the Jazzgrove).

Oliver, Paul, ed. New Grove Gospel, Blues and Jazz: with Spirituals and
Ragtime.  New York: W. W. Norton, 1986.

Riis, Thomas Laurence. Just Before Jazz: Black Musical Theater in New York,
1890 to 1915. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1989.

Schuller, Gunther. Early Jazz: It's roots and early development.  NY: 1968.

Van Der Merwe, Peter. Origins of the Popular Style: The Antecedents of
Twentieth-Century Popular Music. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1989.

Williams, Martin ed. The Art of Jazz: Ragtime to Bebop. (Oxford, 1959) New
York: Da Capo Press, 1981.

Williams, Martin. The Jazz Tradition. New York: Oxford University Press,
1976. Rev. ed., 1983.

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