As ragtime became popularized in the 1900s, white musicians and audiences appropriated the music and ascribed racist lyrics and imagery to rags. Racist stereotypes plastered on many sheet music covers ...

ADRIAN — Sheet music from more than 1,400 popular compositions from the turn of the 20th century has been added to the River Raisin Ragtime Revue's collection. R4's executive director ...

Like the late Templeton, Cleary especially loves the ragtime genre. “Adding a collection of this ... artists interested in sheet music covers and those studying the influences music has on society.” ...

His "Maple Leaf Rag" was the first to sell more than 1 million copies of sheet music as the ragtime rage swept the U.S. from the late 1890s to roughly 1920, when it was largely subsumed by jazz.