CD explores Detroit's contributions to ragtime

Techno, Punk, Motown and...Ragtime? A new CD entitled “Ragtime Detroit! Michigan’s Contribution to America’s Original Music,” has just been released by River Raisin Ragtime Revue (R4), a Tecumseh-based band.

Excerpt from article:

Detroit’s place in ragtime history grew out of two factors. First, although the city’s African-American population at the time was very small (only 1.2 percent in 1910), that community was very active in the local music scene. Second, Detroit was home to the Whitney-Warner Publishing Co. (later Jerome H. Remick & Co.), the most important ragtime music publisher in the U.S.

The CD is available at the ensemble's website.

The rest of the article can be read here.