They All Played Ragtime: The True Story of An American Music

1960 thus 1st Jazz Book Club Edition Hard Back Book. Very Good Condition Book. Minimal shelf wear to the boards, minor bumping head / tail of the spine (see image). Previous owners book plate to the front paste down, binding is solid, pages clean and bright. No Dust Jacket. They All Played Ragtime: The True Story of an American Music by Rudi Blesh and Harriet Janis is one of the landmark books on the history of ragtime music. First published in 1950, it is often described as the book that helped spark the mid-20th-century revival of interest in ragtime. The book covers: The origins and development of ragtime in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The lives and music of major ragtime composers, especially Scott Joplin, James Scott, and Joseph Lamb, whom the authors helped bring back into public attention. The social and cultural world in which ragtime flourished, including its roots in African American musical traditions. The influence of ragtime on later musical forms such as jazz and popular American music. Biographical sketches, anecdotes etc.…