The first person to actually publish a ragtime composition was Kentucky’s Ernest Hogan, minstrel, musician, and composer. As a teenager, Hogan worked in traveling minstrel shows as a dancer, musician, and comedian and, with other notables helped create the musical genre called ragtime.
Episode Credits
- About Executive Producer and host, Dr. Jonathan Øverby Host
- Joe Hardtke Technical Director
Wisconsin Public Radio, © Copyright 2024, Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System and Wisconsin Educational Communications Board.
