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Ragtime has lead to inspirations for today's jazz music. Characteristics from ragtime have gone into modern jazz and bebop.

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Ragtime fell in popularity after the 1920's as more people became fond of wilder and different types of jazz. However Ragtime had a bit of a rebirth in the 1970's as it started to appear in a bit of movies that included the music like the 1974 film, "The Sting" which took some music performed my Scott Joplin.

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The ragtime craze was beginning to die down. Although ragtime music had faded in popularity, ragtime music had begun to evolve into and inspire swing music and other forms of jazz.

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What are Ragtime's biggest contribution to Jazz music?

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Scott Joplin passed away of a disease called syphilis and was believed to be the end of the ragtime era

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Debussy's “Golliwog’s Cakewalk” was written

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The popularity of ragtime continues to grow among Blacks and Whites resulting in increased public interaction between the races.

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Cornetist Buddy Bolden is committed to a mental institution without any form of recording music meanwhile Scott Joplin moves to New York possibly because first classical was produced

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Jelly Roll Morton composes king porter stomp

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"Bethena, A Consert Waltz"was composed and publised.

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Cornetist Buddy Bolden begins to develop a reputation in New Orleans for playing music that fuses elements of blues and ragtime.

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pianist and composer Eubie Blake publishes his first piano rags

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Scott Joplin publishes The Entertainer: a Ragtime Two-Step, which would become a popular hit nearly 70 years later

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Charles booths performance of J Bodewalts Langes creole blues recorded for the new Victor label first aucoustic recording of ragtime is made

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A cutting contest (musical competition) for ragtime pianists is held at New York's Tammany Hall.

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Tom Turpin opened the Rosebud and it was the establishment and became the center of musical activity in St. Louis.

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Scott Joplin published Maple Leaf Rag which became a hit and made him famous and influenced other musicians. Maple Leaf Rag sold over 100,000 copies

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As piano popularity grows in ragtime many musicians also start playing ragtime during this time.

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The first piano rags appear in print. Ragtime grows in popularity

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This is when the peak of ragtime popularity began and went all the way to 1919

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Pianist Tommy Turpin writes Harlem Rag, the first known ragtime composition

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During this decade, ragtime has expanded throughout the United States after 1890. Ragtime has influenced most of southeast United States.

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Tom Tripping, opened his salon. and wrote, "Harlem Rag" who was published by his local lawyer.

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Ragtime was born, in St. Louis, Missouri. St louis is where cultures and influences mixed.

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Scott Joplin begins to learn how to play the piano.

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Many African-American business men begin to make a fortune off Ragtime music.

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African-American songwriter and piano player Scott Joplin is born in Texas.