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Title: Scott Joplin
Description: Biographical information on Scott Joplin (1868-1917), one of the earliest if not the first composer of ragtime music, a precursor of jazz, born in Texas, raised in Saint Louis, and first gaining fame in Sedalia, Missouri in the 1890s. Photos, illustrations, and other information about his life and Missouri musical inventions before New Orleans dixieland jazz and Chicago style jazz, known as the "King of Ragtime."
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: SC59 Local Sheet Music Collection Finding Aid
Description: This collection of 49 boxes is arranged by imprint and state: Missouri, Kansas, and outside the local area and then by city, with the two largest groupings for Kansas City and St. Louis. Within the Kansas City arrangement is a separate category for Jenkins Music Company and for Charles Johnson. Local composers besides Charles Johnson include Scott Joplin, Carl Hoffman, Charles N. Daniels, and others. The type of music includes traditional music of the time period with emphasis on ragtime selections. The bulk of the music is published but there are some original, handwritten compositions. Also included are songs about Kansas City as well as sheet music covers with illustrations depicting Kansas City.
Date: 1880/1960~
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: Ragtime Struts Back Home
Description: Photos, illustrations, and biographical article about Scott Joplin (1868-1917), the "King of Ragtime" music. He was born in Texas and moved to Sedalia, Missouri, about 1894, becoming one of the first commercially successful African American musical composers there and also writing and performing ragtime songs in Kansas City. Article about the renewed popularity of Joplin's music in the 1970s and its attention brought to Sedalia, the site of Joplin's former venue, the Maple Leaf Club, and his song named for it, the "Maple Leaf Rag."
Date: 1975-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: They All Played Ragtime
Description: Several references to Kansas City jazz and its origins, including Tin Pan Alley, each listed in the book's index.
Date: 1966
Object Type: Book

Title: Evidence Unearthed: Digging into Scott Joplin's St. Louis
Description: Scott Joplin moved to St. Louis in 1901 from Sedalia, Missouri. The house where he lived, recognized as a National Historic Landmark in 1976, was donated to the Missouri Division of State Parks (under the umbrella of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources) in 1983. Restoration was completed, and the house opened to the public in 1991 as the Scott Joplin House State Historic Site. This is the only site in the Missouri Division of State Parks dedicated to African American heritage. The article tells of the African American exodus from the south; it identifies that "racial segregation and socioeconomics played a major role in Scott Joplin's and other African Americans'" access to indoor plumbing; and tells that "oftentimes, the only place a black pianist could get work was in the saloons and brothels." A community committee is attempting to expand the story told at the site "focusing on the Great Migration of African Americans and the Jim Crow laws and policies that Scott Joplin and his community faced in St. Louis."
Date: 2009
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Your Kansas City and Mine
Description: Discussion of the beginnings of jazz, starting with ragtime musician Scott Joplin (1868-1917), publisher of ragtime music written in Kansas City in 1898, and continuing with Count Basie (1904-1984), big band and jazz pianist in Kansas City especially in the late 1920s and 1930s, et al.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Book

Title: African Americans in Mid-Missouri: From Pioneers to Ragtimers
Description: This book describes some of the accomplishments and contributions African-Americans have made to Mid-Missouri. Included in the text are chapters on rag-time greats Scott Joplin and Blind Boone, focusing on Sedalia as a musical center for black musical entertainment.
Date: 2010
Object Type: Book

Title: Black Bottom Stomp: Eight Masters of Ragtime and Early Jazz
Description: The first chapter of this book features ragtime musician Scott Joplin. He was born in Texas in 1868 but later settled in Sedalia, Missouri and St. Louis, Missouri. Chapter traces his life and music style and career.
Date: 2002
Object Type: Book

Title: Bittersweet Rag: The Story of Ragtime--Missouri's Contribution to the Music World
Description: Photos, illustrations including written music, and extensive biographical article about Scott Joplin (1868-1917), the so-called "King of Ragtime" of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, gaining fame as a musician in Missouri and late in his career composing the first ever grand opera by an African American ("Treemonisha").
Date: 1977
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Missouri's Role in the Ragtime Revolution
Description: History of ragtime music, a precursor of jazz music played mainly by African-American pianists, originating in the American Midwest in the late 19th century and giving way to jazz and blues mostly by 1910, "primarily in Missouri, particularly in Sedalia." Description of many of its prominent musicians and composers from western Missouri and Saint Louis, including Scott Joplin, Tom Turpin, Ben Harvey, Joseph Lamb, et al.
Date: 1961-04
Object Type: Magazine Article

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