For years the music of Scott Joplin could only be heard after hours in "Gay Nineties" bars when the patrons had gone home and the piano player was waiting for his check. Novelty pieces and jazz had killed the simple, haunting sounds of classical ragtime by World War I, and its memory was practically erased by rickety honky-tonk pianos play- ing old pop tunes. Nationwide revivals of the music were almost always short- lived—even after Rudi Blesh and Harriet Janis' brilliant
Sunflower Slow Drag
The Ragtime Dance
Paragon Rag
Weeping Willow
Euphonic Sounds
Sunflower Slow Rag
Maple Leaf Rag
The Cascades
Magnetic Rag
Gladiolus Rag
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