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Often overlooked by ragtime historians, John William "Blind" Boone had a remarkably successful and influential music career that endured for more than forty years. Blind Boone: Missouri's Ragtime Pioneer provides the first full account of the Missouri-born musician's amazing story of overcoming the odds. Boone's background and his approach to music contributed to his ability to bridge gaps -- gaps between blacks and whites, gaps between popular and classical music, gaps between plantation melodies and ragtime music. Boone's thousands of performances from 1880 to 1926 brought blacks and whites into the same concert halls as he played a mixture of popular and classical tunes. A ragtime pioneer, Boone helped give the musical style legitimacy by bringing it to the concert stage. The mulatto child of a runaway slave and a Union soldier, Boone was born in Miami, Missouri, in 1864. At six months he was diagnosed with "brain fever". Doctors, believing they were performing a lifesaving procedure, removed Boone's eyes and sewed his eyelids shut. Despite blindness and poverty, Boone was characterized as a cheerful child. Growing up in Warrensburg, Missouri, he played freely with both black and white children, undaunted by racial differences or his own disabilities. He exhibited a keen ear and musical promise early in life. Recognizing Boone's talent, the town's prominent citizens sent him to the St. Louis School for the Blind. There he excelled at music. However, Boone clearly despised formal schooling and frequently ran away to the "tenderloin" district of the city, where he was first exposed to ragtime. As a result, he was expelled after only three years. After some harrowingexperiences, Boone met John Lange Jr., a benevolent black contractor and philanthropist in Columbia, Missouri. Boone and Lange began a lifelong friendship, which eventually developed into an equal partnership in the Blind Boone Concert Company.

Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between the turn of the century and the First World War. The story opens in 1906 in New Rochelle, New York, at the home of an affluent American family. One lazy Sunday afternoon, the famous escape artist Harry Houdini swerves his car into a telephone pole outside their house. And almost magically, the line between fantasy and historical fact, between real and imaginary characters, disap- pears. Henry Ford, Emma Goldman, J. P. Morgan, Evelyn Nesbit, Sig- mund Freud, and Emiliano Zapata slip in and out of the tale, crossing paths with Doctorow's imagined family and other fictional characters, including an immigrant peddler and a ragtime musician from Harlem whose insistence on a point of justice drives him to revolutionary violence. The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foundation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with afford- able hardbound editions of impor- tant works of literature and thought. For the Modern Library's seventy- fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring as its emblem the running torch- bearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inau- gurating a new program of selecting titles. The ModernLibrary continues to provide the world's best books, at the best prices.

The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra - The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra is a year round recreation ragtime orchestra that recreates the standard American "theater orchestra" popular from the 1880's into the early 1920's.

Rick Benjamin (band leader) - Rick Benjamin is the director and founder of the world renowned The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra. He has an active career as a pianist and tuboist as well as an arranger.

Paragon Software Corporation - Paragon Software Corporation or just Paragon Software was a video games developer/publisher that released its first game in 1987 and is primarily known for their work on cRPGs based on Marvel Comics franchises and GDW role-playing settings. They released titles on the following platforms; ZX Spectrum, Amiga, PC:DOS, Atari ST and Commodore 64.

Ragtime (film) - Ragtime is a 1981 motion picture based on the historical novel Ragtime by E. L.

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In New Orleans Tulane University - In New Orleans Tulane University Various Artists - A Century Of Ragtime Track Listing: Stars And Stripes Forever - Eubie Blake Harlem Rag - Trebor Tichenor Maple Leaf Rag - Dick Hyman Rags To Burn - Richard Zimmerman Charleston Rag - Eubie Blake Easy Winners, The (A Ragtime Two Step) - Max Morath Entertainer, The - Richard Zimmerman Ragtime Dance, The - Joshua Rifkin Pickles And Peppers (A Rag Oddity) - Max Morath April Fool Rag - Mimi Blais Scott Joplin's New Rag - Joshua Rifkin Chevy Chase Rag, The - John Arpin/ ...

New Orleans Tulane University - New Orleans Tulane University Various Artists - A Century Of Ragtime Track Listing: Stars And Stripes Forever - Eubie Blake Harlem Rag - Trebor Tichenor Maple Leaf Rag - Dick Hyman Rags To Burn - Richard Zimmerman Charleston Rag - Eubie Blake Easy Winners, The (A Ragtime Two Step) - Max Morath Entertainer, The - Richard Zimmerman Ragtime Dance, The - Joshua Rifkin Pickles And Peppers (A Rag Oddity) - Max Morath April Fool Rag - Mimi Blais Scott Joplin's New Rag - Joshua Rifkin Chevy Chase Rag, The - John Arpin/Catherine ...

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