Ragtime music
Syncopated music moved through sheet music, performances, and debates about taste. Newspaper pages from 1893 to 1921 on a map and timeline.
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23,766,177 pages from 4,691 newspapers, 1736–1963.
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63795 matching newspaper pages in total. Washington, DC has the most hits (5752 pages). Showing up to 10 earliest results from this city.
Evening Star — 1896-03-17, page 13
… , Jobs 3. and Geo. W...........2.55 Hpins, John S. and Geo. W............10..55 Ragtime, John S. and Geo. W.............6.86 RatmJohn S. and Geo. W..........17.19 WotaJohn …
Evening Star — 1896-10-31, page 5
The Library of Congress text does not contain the match. It was found in American Stories (Dell et al. 2023), a second machine reading of the scans. OCR credits.
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… Harney, the exponent OF the negro Character singing their real melodies and playing Rag Time music on the piano, II novelty; Morton and Mack. the Celtic COM edy portrayers, …
The Evening Times — 1896-10-31, page 4
The Library of Congress text does not contain the match. It was found in American Stories (Dell et al. 2023), a second machine reading of the scans. OCR credits.
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… ard CUmeG- | idIs, Ben X. HaTneE. VINO illustrates on the piano what il called Rag time" mrSic, Introducing new style Of coon songs and buck daudnG, novel act: Morton …
Evening Star — 1897-02-06, page 10
The Library of Congress text does not contain the match. It was found in American Stories (Dell et al. 2023), a second machine reading of the scans. OCR credits.
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… Fred Fletcher, violinist, and Harry Flood. comic piano speciality, introducing Rag Time" Contributions. Rev. A. G. Rogers, pastor of the Church of Our Father, has turned …
Evening Star — 1897-02-10, page 10
… Pattens, eccen tric musical experts; Clarice Vance sing ing a budget of the latest rag-time melo dies; the LaMoyne Brothers, horizontal bar eccentriques; Matthews and Harris …
The Morning Times — 1897-02-11, page 4
The Library of Congress text does not contain the match. It was found in American Stories (Dell et al. 2023), a second machine reading of the scans. OCR credits.
These excerpts come from American Stories OCR.
… horizontal bar grotesques, Miss CIarice Vance. who will sing budget OF the latest 'rag-time" melodies. and the Pattens. However, records go TO show that the most eccentric …
The Morning Times — 1897-02-14, page 16
The Library of Congress text does not contain the match. It was found in American Stories (Dell et al. 2023), a second machine reading of the scans. OCR credits.
These excerpts come from American Stories OCR.
… Pattens, eccentric musical experts; Carice Vance, singing Il budget of the latest rag-time mel odies; the La Moyne Brothers, horizontal bar ecccntriques; Matthews and Harris …
The Morning Times — 1897-02-14, page 17
… Pattens, eccentric musical experts; Clarice Vance, singing a budgetof tlie latest rag-time mel odies; the La Moyne Brothers, horizontal bar eoeeiit.riques; Matthews and Harris …
Evening Star — 1897-04-01, page 12
… , will sing the latest scng. Barringer and Sallade will give the New York hit. "Rag-Time Selec tions." The Imperial Quartet of the "In Mizzoura" company will pres'ent their …
Evening Star — 1897-04-02, page 3
… presented a clever sketch; (iolden S. Patten. monologue; Bar rir.ger and Sallade, "Rag Time;" selections, banjo and guitar; the Imperial Quartet. Messrs. Gosler, Chippell, …
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