Mention ragtime music and usually Scott Joplin is the first composer to come to mind. However, equally popular in the first two decades of the last century was James Scott. He developed his own ...

In the early 1880s, a young African American boy in Texarkana named Scott Joplin was trained in the fundamentals of classical music and opera by his German-born teacher. Born near Linden, Joplin was ...

Historic Phelps House will be filled with toe-tapping syncopated rhythms from 7 to 11 p.m. Saturday as Carthage Historic Preservation celebrates the Phelps House Ragtime Ball III. The ball dates to ...