[Dixielandjazz] Re: The Eminem Rag

[Ed Berlin]

Is there any significance to the title chosen?  Black & White Rag? 

This recording is not the first meeting of rap and ragtime.  At a 
ragtime festival about 6-7 years ago, Glenn Jenks, a popular ragtime 
performer and composer, did a Maple Leaf Rap, a spoof on rap using the 
awful song version of the instrumental Maple Leaf Rag.  He introduced it 
by discussing how unsingable the lyrics are, but they fit the rap mood 
perfectly.  He then proceeded, against a pre-recorded background of 
rap-like riffs, lighting, etc., to chant rhythmically, motion with his 
hands, & strut around the stage.  We couldn't contain our laughter.  
He's repeated it at other ragtime events.

Ed Berlin