That's a really good idea. Thanks. Yes, the Doors would have been my suggestion. Metallica probably Simon. I'm still learning about Ragtime. I guess it would include Scott Joplin but maybe others as well. Sometimes on Youtube the recordings are too scratchy to recommend. The titles of some Ragtime music suggest they were wilder and 'dirtier' than Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag. And Irving Berlin... H'mm! So his Alexander's Ragtime Band - a huge hit - isn't really Ragtime. As you'll know, when you're 19, fake or copycat music is really despised by young music fans. They're worse than comic fans! So I could imagine the hero of Ragtime Soldier arguing with his mates about genuine Ragtime versus 'fake' Ragtime. I suspect all those animal dances would have attracted teenage boy soldiers. I'd like to find some soldiers actually saying which Ragtime tracks they liked. It's woefully unrecorded in history books. But I imagine it's similar with the Vietnam war. I've got a CD of very early Jazz recordings, but I should really find the equivalent for Ragtime. It's fun finding out!
Of course in theory it’s a good idea, but it has to be authentic as you say. It wouldn’t do the subject any service to just make a Ragtime playlist, it has to be THE Ragtime playlist. It’s interesting & potentially saddening if the information to construct it doesn’t exist because it means those soldiers didn’t make it back to record that information.
All current historians of WW1 are revisionists and often ex-Sandhurst military. The cultural histories of WW1 (postcards, theatre etc) are all written by ex-army. I have all their books. So there's a deliberate stranglehold on our perception of the Great War. There's bound to be an exception/s somewhere so I'll have a hunt. Probably some book the censors missed. Probably under a different label like Ragtime history
When you think it wasn’t until the mid 1920’s that American folk music began to be catalogued, & blues music not until the 30’s; it makes you wonder how much culture has been lost. At least enough of working class culture has survived for Charley & Ragtime!
Have you thought about compiling a Ragtime Soldier playlist, an authorised one as it were? Even just a list or a theme? Music plays such a big part in everything for me. I was very happy to see The Doors in ABC Warriors as Joe Pineapples playlist in The Black Hole. Although I’m not sure if it was you or added by “The Biz”, as I see Dio & Metallica also mentioned. Fun for me! Thanks again!
That's a really good idea. Thanks. Yes, the Doors would have been my suggestion. Metallica probably Simon. I'm still learning about Ragtime. I guess it would include Scott Joplin but maybe others as well. Sometimes on Youtube the recordings are too scratchy to recommend. The titles of some Ragtime music suggest they were wilder and 'dirtier' than Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag. And Irving Berlin... H'mm! So his Alexander's Ragtime Band - a huge hit - isn't really Ragtime. As you'll know, when you're 19, fake or copycat music is really despised by young music fans. They're worse than comic fans! So I could imagine the hero of Ragtime Soldier arguing with his mates about genuine Ragtime versus 'fake' Ragtime. I suspect all those animal dances would have attracted teenage boy soldiers. I'd like to find some soldiers actually saying which Ragtime tracks they liked. It's woefully unrecorded in history books. But I imagine it's similar with the Vietnam war. I've got a CD of very early Jazz recordings, but I should really find the equivalent for Ragtime. It's fun finding out!
Of course in theory it’s a good idea, but it has to be authentic as you say. It wouldn’t do the subject any service to just make a Ragtime playlist, it has to be THE Ragtime playlist. It’s interesting & potentially saddening if the information to construct it doesn’t exist because it means those soldiers didn’t make it back to record that information.
All current historians of WW1 are revisionists and often ex-Sandhurst military. The cultural histories of WW1 (postcards, theatre etc) are all written by ex-army. I have all their books. So there's a deliberate stranglehold on our perception of the Great War. There's bound to be an exception/s somewhere so I'll have a hunt. Probably some book the censors missed. Probably under a different label like Ragtime history
When you think it wasn’t until the mid 1920’s that American folk music began to be catalogued, & blues music not until the 30’s; it makes you wonder how much culture has been lost. At least enough of working class culture has survived for Charley & Ragtime!
Have you thought about compiling a Ragtime Soldier playlist, an authorised one as it were? Even just a list or a theme? Music plays such a big part in everything for me. I was very happy to see The Doors in ABC Warriors as Joe Pineapples playlist in The Black Hole. Although I’m not sure if it was you or added by “The Biz”, as I see Dio & Metallica also mentioned. Fun for me! Thanks again!