Ragtime Books Compiled by David Reffkin
1950 They All Played Ragtime
Rudi Blesh/Harriet Janis
Oak Publications (Ed. 3, 4)
1973 Recorded Ragtime 1897-1958
David Jasen
Archon Books
The Art of Ragtime
William Schafer/Johannes Riedel
Louisiana State University Press
1975 Scott Joplin and the Ragtime Era
Peter Gammond
Sphere Books
1976 Scott Joplin and the Ragtime Years
Mark Evans
Dodd, Mead and Company
This Is Ragtime
Terry Waldo
Hawthorn Books
Jazz at Lincoln Center (2010)
1978 Rags and Ragtime
David Jasen/Trebor Tichenor
The Seabury Press
Scott Joplin: The Man Who Made Ragtime
James Haskins
Stein and Day
1979 Eubie Blake
Al Rose
Schirmer Books
1980 Ragtime: A Musical and Cultural History
Edward Berlin
University of California Press
1985 Ragtime: It’s History, Composers, and Music
John Hasse
Schirmer Books
German Ragtime/Prehistory of Jazz
Rainer Lotz
Storyville Publication
1987 Reflections and Research on Ragtime
Edward Berlin
Institute for Studies in American Music
Raggin’: A Story About Scott Joplin
Barbara Mitchell
Carolrhoda Books
1988 Scott Joplin: Composer
Kaherine Preston
Chelsea House Publishers
1992 The Book of Hungarian Jazz
Géza Gábor Simon
Hotelinfo Ltd
The Music of James Scott
Scott DeVeau/William Howland Kenney
Smithsonian Institution
1993 The Music of Charles Johnson
Philip Stewart
(self-published)
1994 King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and His Era
Edward Berlin
Oxford University Press (2016 pending)
Dancing to a Black Man’s Tune: A Life of Scott Joplin
Susan Curtis
University of Missouri Press
1995 A Life in Ragtime
Reid Badger
Oxford University Press
Scott Joplin: A Life in Ragtime
Steven Otfinoski
Grolier Publishing
Tantalizing Tingles
Ross Laird
Greenwood Press
Tom Turpin: His Life and Music
Gene Jones
Tom Turpin Ragtime Festival
1996 Scott Joplin and the Age of Ragtime
Timothy Frew
Friedman/Fairfax
1998 Scott Joplin: A Guide to Research
Nancy Ping-Robbins
Garland Publishing
Blind Boone: Missouri’s Ragtime Pioneer
Jack Batterson
University of Missouri Press
2000 That American Rag: The Story of Ragtime from Coast to Coast
David Jasen/Gene Jones
Schirmer Books
2002 Black Bottom Stomp: Eight Masters of Ragtime and Early Jazz
David Jasen/Gene Jones
Routledge
2003 Cakewalks, Rags and Novelties: The Int. Ragtime Discography
Allan Sutton (Foreword by David Reffkin)
Mainspring Press
2004 Blind Boone: Piano Prodigy
Madge Harrah
Carolrhoda Books
Scott Joplin: King of Ragtime
Yvonne Cloutier
(self-published)
2005 Ragging It: Getting Ragtime Into History (and some history into ragtime)
- Loring White
iUniverse
2007 Ragtime: An Encylopedia, Discography and Sheetography
David Jasen
Routledge
2009 Scott Joplin and the Age of Ragtime
Ray Argyle
McFarland
2012 Joseph F. Lamb: A Passion for Ragtime
Carol Binkowski
McFarland
2016 Brun Campbell: The Original Ragtime Kid
Larry Karp
McFarland
Off-the-wall books on ragtime: the marginal and the spurious
1972 After the Ball
Ian Whitcomb
Penguin Books
1976 The Ragtime Era
Clement Haney
Tower Publications
1986 A Guest of Honor
Nathan Young
Warren Green
1987 Irving Berlin and Ragtime America
Ian Whitcomb
Century Hutchinson
1992 From Cakewalks to Concert Halls
Thomas Morgan/William Barlow
Elliott and Clark
1993 When Ragtime was Young and Grandma Did the Cooking
Elsa Altshool
Trafford Publishing
1998 Spreadin’ Rhythm Around: Black Popular Songwriters, 1880-
1930
David Jasen/Gene Jones
Schirmer Books
1998, 1999, 2002
The Ragtime Ephemeralist
Chris Ware
Acme Novelty Company
1999 The Road to Ragtime
Max Morath/Diane Fay Skomars
The Donning Company
2005 Joplin’s Ghost
Tananarive Due
Atria Books
2006, 2008, 2010
The Ragtime Kid, The King of Ragtime, The Ragtime Fool
Larry Karp
Poisoned Pen Press
2007 Ragged But Right
Lynn Abbott/Doug Seroff
University Press of Mississippi