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Johnny Maddox, a legendary ragtime pianist who was a mainstay at the Diamond Belle Saloon for 16 years, died Tuesday in Gallatin, Tennessee. He was 91. Maddox had an illustrious career, first taking ...

At the turn of the 20th century, ragtime music was all the rage. It was music to dance to as well as music to pass on oral traditions. Created by recently freed Blacks who couldn’t then read or write ...

Scott Joplin personified ragtime; he was its chief champion, the figure most closely associated with its composition. It was Joplin's short, hard-driving melodies- -and the syncopated backbone he ...

‘The Wellerman’ has been on quite the voyage since its birth in the 19th century. Once sung by New Zealand sea shanty crews, the now-viral whaling song became the official TikTok earworm after postman ...

West Side Story, Ragtime and a Teen Composer : From the Top We hear a variety of American music from Bernstein’s West Side Story to ragtime piano and a young composer’s jazz-inspired saxophone ...

Famous ragtime pianist Johnny Maddox visited Columbia this week as the guest of honor at the Blind Boone Ragtime Festival. In the height of his career in the 1950s, Maddox performed with names like ...