Ragtime Nerd Post

Tiger Rag - Adam Swanson 

He's my soul mate.

A Ballin' Rendition of Maple Leaf Rag - Martin Spitznagel 

All hail the mighty Spitznagel

When the Saints Go Marching In - Russel Wilson

Starts out unbearably slow, but this guy really gets into it.

Fur Elise in Ragtime - Ethan Uslan

Ethan Uslan is a pretentious jerk.  He is one of those people who knows that he's amazingly talented. Yet somehow, I can't stop watching him.  He won the World Championship Old-time Piano Playing Contest in Peoria in 2012. What an absolute jerk.

Resources for Researching Ragtime (this list is on-going):

1. Rags and Ragtime - David A. Jasen & Trebor Jay Tichenor
2. Ragtime: Its History, Composers, and Music - John Edward Hasse
3. They All Played Ragtime - Rudi Blesh & Harriet Janis
4. Social Dance Music of Black Composers in the Nineteenth Century - Samuel Floyd 
5. Defining Ragtime Music: Historical and Typological Research - Ingebor Harer
6. Passing for Colored: Meanings for Minstrelsy and Ragtime - S.G.F. Spackman
7. Dancing to a Black Man's Tune: A Life of Scott Joplin - Susan Curtis