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.
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.
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