In the right hands — and Joshua Rifkin is (or has) the right hands — ragtime piano speaks to something deep, poignant and sad in the American soul...
Category - Ragtime
There is no one true American music, of course. There are many: Blues, jazz, rock and roll and others. They blend into each other in unpredictable permutations...
Scott Joplin lived at the very outer edge of the communications age, and even saying that is pushing it. He came before film or audio recording, but his work...
Ragtime, perhaps because of the popularity of Scott Joplin, is associated with the piano. There also is a school of ragtime guitar, however. Elizabeth Cotten...