When Did Ragtime Jump The Shark?

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you know it did. let it out.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Easy. 1917.

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Around the time of The Sting.

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Remember when everyone was doing the Michigan Rag?

http://www.joshway.com/images/new/dvd2004/2004michiganj.jpg

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Serious answer:

http://lsm.crt.state.la.us/collections/alexander.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Around the time of The Sting.

For Marvin Hamlisch aping Joshua Rifkin's drying out of the genre?

http://music.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/9905_ragtime/index.shtml

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't hate ragtime music, it's just the fans bug me so much, I can't get into it.

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Scott Joplin totally plays piano like a muppet.

― diedre mousedropping and a quarter (Dave225), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Like who? Chris Ware? (xpost)

http://www.english.ufl.edu/imagetext/archives/volume1/issue1/deitch/images/ragtime.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

During the 4th of July scene in "Jaws", Sherrif Brody (portrayed brilliantly by Roy Schieder), scurries by a beach-size bandstand upon which Scott Joplin's "The Entertainer" is being played. RIGHT THERE it jumped the shark (although the shark itself was in the lagoon, about to bite some haplessly sailboater's leg off.)

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

beach-size bandstand

that should've read beach-side.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.indieking.com/images/GWwithEnid.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

RAGTIME HAS NEVER JUMPED THE SHARK!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

haha
xpost to ghost world

― sleep (sleep), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.clicket.com/images/2013.jpg

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, on second thought, my joke should have been:
"It was cool until Chris Ware published the Rag-Time Ephemeralist and the scene was overrun by posers!"

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Blind Blake's awesomeness dictate's it was very much the uber-genre till 1932 at least. Apparently the new Jack Rose record, Kensington Blues, will feature ragtime, and I find hope in this.

― Ogmor Roundtrouser (Ogmor Roundtrouser), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

reginald robinson to thread

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 18:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Next up: when did skiffle jump the shark?

Or: when did polkas jump the shark?

― The Mad Puffin, Tuesday, 31 May 2005 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.musicnotes.com/productimg/BKAL18899.jpg

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 21:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Next up: when did skiffle jump the shark?

I don't know, but the Quarrymen were the Beatles of the Skiffle scene. You can quote me on that!

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 21:19 (twenty-one years ago)

TELL THAT TO LONNIE DONAGAN, TUFF GUY!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 21:23 (twenty-one years ago)

When did Mozart jump the shark?

― ffirehorse, Wednesday, 1 June 2005 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Joplin's opera maybe?

― g e o f f (gcannon), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0452279070.01._PIdp-schmooS_.gif

― mike h. (mike h.), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

this is the only ragtime thread on ilm

― and what, Monday, 15 October 2007 14:00 (eighteen years ago)

boogie never died

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 15 October 2007 14:03 (eighteen years ago)

scott joplin invented bass, bass now rules the world

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 15 October 2007 14:03 (eighteen years ago)

Outkast kinda embraced ragtime on the Idlewild soundtrack...(doo-ragtime?)...

― henry s, Monday, 15 October 2007 14:07 (eighteen years ago)

three years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm5-WdB_aVE

― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 15:52 (fifteen years ago)

twelve years pass...

Rags are the dad jokes of early 20th century music, and I love dad jokes

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 12 February 2023 03:12 (three years ago)

“The song's chord structure was inspired by bassist Robert DeLeo's love of ragtime music”

You would never guess what song this is referring to.

― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 12 February 2023 11:40 (three years ago)

If it's Vaseline, I kind of get it

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 12 February 2023 15:58 (three years ago)

Although less the chord structure than the rhythm

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 12 February 2023 15:59 (three years ago)

If it's the chords I guess maybe Plush because it has that ragtimey turnaround in the intro?

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 12 February 2023 15:59 (three years ago)

ragtime lives my bros
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyBWz9Jx8jI

― ian, Sunday, 12 February 2023 17:13 (three years ago)

there is a lovely JRM homage album by Dave Burrell from 1990 called Jelly Roll Joys which I always go back to.

― calzino, Sunday, 12 February 2023 17:40 (three years ago)

I'm gonna to sing you a hundred verses in ragtime,
I know this song it ain't never gonna end

― J. Sam, Sunday, 12 February 2023 18:45 (three years ago)

my serious answer here is "when Scott Joplin died in 1917"

― sleeve, Sunday, 12 February 2023 18:50 (three years ago)

Don't think it ever jumped the shark, it just turned into jazz.

― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Sunday, 12 February 2023 18:53 (three years ago)

"Doop" is a song by Dutch Eurodance group Doop. It was released on 28 February 1994 as the first single from the debut album Circus Doop (1994).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mINXDcOISww

― made a mint from mmm mmm mmm mmm (Eazy), Sunday, 12 February 2023 18:58 (three years ago)

one month passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLN8AiQk-dw
THIS SLAPS SO HARD

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 15 March 2023 02:41 (three years ago)

You would never guess what song this is referring to.

"Meatplow"?

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 15 March 2023 04:19 (three years ago)

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