When Did Ragtime Jump The Shark?

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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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

Scott Joplin totally plays piano like a muppet.

diedre mousedropping and a quarter (Dave225), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 16:09 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

beach-size bandstand

that should've read beach-side.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 16:11 (eighteen years ago) link

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

jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 16:11 (eighteen years ago) link

RAGTIME HAS NEVER JUMPED THE SHARK!

M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 16:13 (eighteen years ago) link

haha
xpost to ghost world

sleep (sleep), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 16:14 (eighteen years ago) link

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

PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 16:20 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

reginald robinson to thread

Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 18:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Next up: when did skiffle jump the shark?

Or: when did polkas jump the shark?

The Mad Puffin, Tuesday, 31 May 2005 18:40 (eighteen years ago) link

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

Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 21:12 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

TELL THAT TO LONNIE DONAGAN, TUFF GUY!

M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 21:23 (eighteen years ago) link

When did Mozart jump the shark?

ffirehorse, Wednesday, 1 June 2005 17:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Joplin's opera maybe?

g e o f f (gcannon), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 18:01 (eighteen years ago) link

two years pass...

this is the only ragtime thread on ilm

and what, Monday, 15 October 2007 14:00 (sixteen years ago) link

boogie never died

Tracer Hand, Monday, 15 October 2007 14:03 (sixteen years ago) link

scott joplin invented bass, bass now rules the world

Tracer Hand, Monday, 15 October 2007 14:03 (sixteen years ago) link

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

henry s, Monday, 15 October 2007 14:07 (sixteen years ago) link

three years pass...
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 (one year ago) link

“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 (one year ago) link

If it's Vaseline, I kind of get it

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 12 February 2023 15:58 (one year ago) link

Although less the chord structure than the rhythm

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 12 February 2023 15:59 (one year ago) link

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 (one year ago) link

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

ian, Sunday, 12 February 2023 17:13 (one year ago) link

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 (one year ago) link

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 (one year ago) link

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

sleeve, Sunday, 12 February 2023 18:50 (one year ago) link

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

Camaraderie at Arms Length, Sunday, 12 February 2023 18:53 (one year ago) link

"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 (one year ago) link

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 (one year ago) link

You would never guess what song this is referring to.

"Meatplow"?

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 15 March 2023 04:19 (one year ago) link


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