(May 5, 1976) -- A special Pulitzer Prize was given posthumously Monday to America's "King of Ragtime," Scott Joplin for the music he composed throughout his career. The award to the Texarkana native ...

Pianist William McNally plays the 'Maple Leaf Rag' for students at Skyline Elementary School in Sedalia, Mo. Ragtime is big with the kids in Sedalia. One day this spring, about 100 of them cheered for ...

Vol. 9, No. 2, Papers of the 1989 National Conference on Black Music Research (Autumn, 1989), pp. 205-223 (19 pages) Begun in 1980, Black Music Research Journal is published in the spring and fall of ...