Selected Bibliography

BOOKS

Allen, W. F., C. P. Ware, and L. M. Garrison. Slave Songs of the United States. New York: A. Simpson, 1867. Republished, Oak Publishing Company (paper), 1967.

Blesh, Rudi. Shining Trumpets. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958.

———, and Harriet Janis. They All Played Ragtime. New York: Grove Press, 1959.

Buerkle, Jack V., and Danny Baker. Bourbon Street Black. New York: Oxford University Press, 1973.

Bullock, Henry Allen. A History of Negro Education in the South. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1967.

Carroll, J. M. A History of Texas Baptists. Dallas, Tex.: Baptist Standard Publishing Company, 1923.

Charters, Samuel B., and Leonard Kunstadt. Jazz: A History of the New York Scene. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1962.

Courlander, Harold. Negro Folk Music U.S.A. New York: Columbia University Press, 1969.

Davis, William R. The Development and Present Status of Negro Education in East Texas. New York: Teacher’s College Press, 1934.

Eby, Frederick. The Development of Education in Texas. New York: Macmillan, 1925.

Gammond, Peter. Scott Joplin and the Ragtime Era. London: Abacus, 1975.

Ginzburg, Ralph. One Hundred Years of Lynchings. New York: Lancer, 1969.

Goldberg, Isaac. Tin Pan Alley. New York: Frederick Ungar, 1961.

Haskins, James. Witchcraft, Mysticism and Magic in the Black World. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1974.

Haskins, Jim, and Hugh F. Butts. The Psychology of Black Language. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1973.

Hentoff, Nat, and Albert J. McCarthy, eds. Jazz. New York: Da Capo Press, 1975.

Katz, Bernard, ed. The Social Implications of Early Negro Music in the United States. New York: Arno Press and the New York Times, 1969.

Katz, William Loren, ed. The American Negro: His History and Literature. New York: Arno Press and the New York Times, 1969.

King, Edward. The Great South. Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, 1875.

Lawrence, Vera Brodsky, ed. Scott Joplin: Collected Piano Works. Introduction, “Scott Joplin: Black American Classicist,” by Rudi Blesh, New York: New York Public Library, 1971.

Locke, Alain. The Negro and His Music: Negro Art Past and Present. New York: Arno Press and the New York Times, 1969.

McReynolds, Edwin C. Missouri: A History of the Crossroads State. Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1962.

Meinig, D. W. Imperial Texas: An Interpretative Essay in Cultural Geography. Austin, Texas.: University of Texas Press, 1969.

Osofsky, Gilbert. Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto. New York: Harper & Row, 1968.

Ramsey, Frederic, Jr. Been Here and Gone. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1960.

Reed, Addison Walker. The Life and Works of Scott Joplin. Unpublished doctoral thesis, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1973.

Rice, Lawrence D. The Negro in Texas: 1874–1900. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 1971.

Roach, Hildred. Black American Music. Boston: Crescendo Publishing, 1973.

Sargeant, Winthrop. Jazz: Hot and Hybrid. New York: Da Capo Press, 1975.

Schafer, William J., and Johannes Reidel. The Art of Ragtime. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 1973.

Southern, Eileen. The Music of Black Americans: A History. New York: Norton, 1971.

Stearns, Marshall W. The Story of Jazz. New York: Oxford University Press, 1958.

Sterling, Dorothy, ed. The Trouble They Seen: Black People Tell the Story of Reconstruction. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1976.

Swint, Henry Lee. The Northern Teacher in the South. New York: Octagon Press, 1967.

Williams, Martin, ed. Jazz Panorama. New York: Collier Books, 1964.

ARTICLES AND PERIODICALS

New York Age, April 5, 1917.

“A Musical Novelty,” American Musician, June 24, 1911.

Arnold, W. H., Sr. “Historical Statement of Texarkana, Arkansas, to February 7, 1917.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Vol. 5, No. 4, 1946, pp. 341–53.

Brockhoff, Dorothy. “Ragtime Professor,” Washington University magazine, Summer 1972, p. 35.

Campbell, S. Brunson. “Ragtime Begins: Early Days with Joplin Recalled,” The Record Changer, March 1948, p. 8.

––––––. “The Ragtime Kid (An Autobiography)” (edited version reprinted), Jazz Report, Vol. VI, 1967, n.p.

––––––, and R. J. Carew. “Sedalia, Missouri: Cradle of Ragtime,” The Record Changer, May 1945, p. 3; June 1945, p. 36.

Carew, R. J. “Treemonisha,” The Record Changer, October 1946.

––––––, Roy, and Private Don E. Fowler. “Scott Joplin: Overlooked Genius,” The Record Changer, September 1944, p. 12; October 1944, p. 11.

Cassidy, Russ. “Joseph Lamb: Last of the Ragtime Composers,” Jazz Monthly, August 1961, pp. 4–7.

Collier, James Lincoln. “The Scott Joplin Rag,” New York Times Magazine, September 21, 1975, p. 19.

Daily, Georgia. “Childhood Friend Remembers Joplin,” Texarkana Gazette, May 6, 1976.

Denig, Lynde. “A Unique American Playhouse,” The Theatre magazine, June 1916, p. 362.

“Emancipation Day,” Sedalia Democrat, August 4, 1899.

Giddins, Gary. “‘Treemonisha’ from on High Breaks Loose,” Village Voice, May 24, 1976, p. 90.

Goodwin, Noel. “Ragtime Reckoning,” About the House, Vol. 4, No. 7, Christmas 1974, pp. 12–17.

Hill, W. D. “Saga of Scott Joplin,” Sedalia Democrat, February 11, 1962, p. 1.

“Joplin, ‘Father of Ragtime,’ Honored,” Indianapolis News, November 26, 1975.

“Joplin’s Black Gold,” Newsweek, September 22, 1975, p. 62.

Kupferberg, Herbert. “Joplin’s Opera Finally Makes It Big,” National Observer, September 27, 1975.

“Man Who Knew Joplin Is the Man of the Hour,” The Washingtonian, August 11, 1972, p. B1.

“Missouri Was the Birthplace of Ragtime,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 18, 1961, p. 137.

Nation, The, Vol. 4. May 30, 1867, pp. 432-33.

New York Age, March 5, 1908, May 19, 1910, April 24, 1913, August 7, 1913, August 14, 1913, September 7, 1916, March 29, 1917, April 5, 1917.

New York Dramatic Mirror, September 12, October 17, October 24, 1913.

“Orr School Is Nominated for National Historic Site,” Texarkana Gazette, May 2, 1976.

“Ragtime Music was Born in Sedalia.” The Sedalia Democrat. October 16, 1960.

Rag Times, 1967–77.

Rich, Alan. “Scott Joplin’s 20/20 Vision,” New York magazine, November 3, 1975, p. 83.

“St. Louis and Scott Joplin,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, February 2, 1972.

“School Named for Scott Joplin,” New York Amsterdam News, February 8, 1975, p. D-11.

“Scott Joplin Awarded a Special Pulitzer Prize,” Texarkana Gazette, May 5, 1976.

“Scott Joplin and the Ragtime Revival,” New York Record World, July 6, 1974, p. 20.

“Scott Joplin Dies of Mental Trouble,” New York Age, April 5, 1917.

“Scott Joplin: From Rags to Opera,” Time, September 15, 1973, p. 85.

“Scott Joplin: Renascence of a Black Composer of Ragtime and Grand Opera,” Negro History Bulletin, January 1974, p. 188.

Southern, Orrin Clayton II. “Minstrelsy in Popular Culture,” in Marshall Fishwick, ed. Remus, Rastus, Revolution. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green University Press, n.d.

Thompson, Kay C. “Lottie Joplin,” The Record Changer, October 1950, p. 8.

––––––. “Rag-time and Jelly Roll,” The Record Changer, April 1948, p. 8.

Tichenor, Trebor Jay. “Missouri’s Role in the Ragtime Revolution,” Missouri Historical Bulletin. Vol. XVII, April 1960, p. 239.

“To Play Ragtime in Europe,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, February 28, 1901.

Vanderlee, Ann and John, “Scott Joplin’s Childhood Days in Texarkana,” Rag Times, November 1973, p. 5.

––––––. “The Early Life of Scott Joplin,” Rag Times, January 1974, p. 2.

EPHEMERA

Documents

American Statistical Association, New Series No. 61, March 1903. “The Negroes of St. Louis,” by Lillian Brandt. New York Public Library, Microfilm No. LAC 40138.

Census Records, Bowie and Cass Counties, Texas, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, Collections of the National Archives, Washington, D.C., The New York Public Library, The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The Texas State Library.

Chicago City Directory, 1905–7, Collection of the Chicago Historical Society.

City of New York, Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Records, certificate of death for Scott Joplin.

First Annual Report of Public Free Schools of the City of Texarkana, Texas, 1887.

Fisk University Library Special Collections, Nashville, Tennessee, Samuel Brunson Campbell Papers.

Duncan, Green C., letter to Mrs. M. E. Duncan, University of Texas Archives, Green C. Duncan Papers.

Gould’s St. Louis City Directory, 1884–1907, Collection of the Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Missouri.

Hooks family genealogy, compiled January 1970, by Mrs. Arthur Jennings, Texarkana.

McCoy’s Sedalia City Directory, 1894–1901, Collection of the Sedalia Public Library.

New York City Real Estate Record, 1909–22, Collection of the Museum of the City of New York.

New York City real estate records, Hall of Records, Surrogates, Court and Municipal Reference Library.

Simmons and Kernodle’s Pettis County and Sedalia City Directory, 1883–84.

State of Arkansas, State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, certificate of death for Jiles Joplin.

Texarkana City Directory, 1899–1924, Collection of the Texarkana Historical Society.

Texas Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1882–83, Standard Directory Service, Texarkana, Tex.

Trow’s General Directory, New York City, 1900–22, Collection of the Museum of the City of New York.

U. S. Census Records, Kentucky—various counties—1830, 1840, 1850, Collection of the New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Pamphlets

Chandler, Barbara Overton, and J. Ed. Howe. “History of Texarkana and Bowie and Miller Counties, Texas-Arkansas.” Shreveport, Louisiana, 1939. Collection of the Texarkana Historical Society and Museum.

“Dedication of State of Texas Historical Commission Official Marker: Scott Joplin,” 1976.

“History of Texarkana, Texas,” no author, no date, Collection of the New York Public Library.

Holland, Lucille. “The Texarkana Story, 1873–1948.” Texarkana, Arkansas-Texas, n.d., Collection of the New York Public Library.

Jennings, Nancy Moores Watts. “Moores or Mooresville and Harrison Chapel Cemetery, Bowie County, Texas,” Texarkana, Texas, 1967.

––––––. “Texarkana Pioneer Family Histories,” Texarkana Pioneers Association, 1961, Collection of the New York Public Library.

––––––, and Mary L. S. Phillips, compilers. “Texarkana Centennial Historical Program,” Texarkana, Arkansas-Texas, 1973.

Liner notes. “The Sound of Harlem,” Jazz Odyssey, Vol. III. Frank Driggs, producer. Columbia Jazz Archive Series, 1964.

Meadows, Emma Lou. “De Kalb and Bowie County History and Genealogy,” De Kalb, Texas, 1968, Collection of the New York Public Library.

Playbill, “Scott Joplin’s ‘Treemonisha,'” Uris Theatre, 1975.

“The 1939 History,” Dunbar High School, Texarkana, Arkansas-Texas.