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 ...

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Ragtime, a distinctly American musical genre that was very much in vogue in the early 20th Century, is experiencing the beginnings of a renaissance thanks to the man who’s the subject of this week’s ...

It’s a magnificent piece of theater, with a glorious score that still sounds transcendent more than 20 years after its debut. With a pageant of characters, and their wealth of perspectives on American ...

TECUMSEH — Christmas music season is here, and, while there is a wide variety of recordings of seasonal music to play at parties or while baking cookies and candies, sometimes the same old tunes get a ...