1817 - 1904
1817 - New Orleans city council establishes "Congo Square" as an official site for slave music and dance
1892 - Pianist Tommy Turpin writes Harlem Rag, the first known ragtime composition
1895 - Pianist Scott Joplin publishes his first two rags. Cornetist Buddy Bolden forms his band
1897 - The first piano rags appear in print. Ragtime grows in popularity
1899 - Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag is published and sells over 100,000 copies
1900 - A cutting contest (a colloquial term for music competition) for ragtime pianists is held at New York's Tammany Hall. Louis Armstrong is born
1901 - Charles Booth's performance of J. Bodewalt Lange's Creole Blues is recorded for the new Victor label. This is the first acoustic recording of ragtime to be made commercially available. The American Federation of Musicians (the musicians union) votes to suppress ragtime
1902 - The John Philip Sousa Band records the ragtime piece, Trombone Sneeze, written by Arthur Pryor. Lincoln Park is opened in New Orleans, as a center for ragtime and early jazz performances. Scott Joplin publishes The Entertainer: a Ragtime Two-Step, which would become a popular hit nearly 70 years later. Pianist Jelly Roll Morton claims to have invented jazz in this year
1903 - Pianist and composer Eubie Blake publishes his first piano rags
1904 - 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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