That American Rag! The Story of Ragtime from Coast to Coast

A lively cultural history of the music that captivated America. Beginning with Scott Joplin's million-selling hit, Maple Leaf Rag published in 1899, the authors take you on a tour of American ragtime composing and publishing. Along the way, you will read the story of hundreds of composers - men and women, black and white, young and old - who took that ragtime beat from small-town America to the stages of Broadway and Carnegie Hall - and beyond.