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From: <span class="ep8xu"><span><span style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">Jorge Potter</span></span></span><span class="hccdpe"> </span><span class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:jorgepot@gmail.com">jorgepot@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="hccdpe">Re: LL-L "Etymology" 2008.11.24 (06) [LS]</span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Follow-up
on</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Joachim
Kreimer-de Fries <<a href="mailto:Kreimer@jpberlin.de" target="_blank">Kreimer@jpberlin.de</a>></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Subject:
LL-L "Etymology" 2008.11.24 (02) [LS]</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="DA">Bedrept: engelsk "rag",
"ragged", (vgl. auk "ragtime", "ragman" u. a.)</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="DA"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Dear
Joachim Kreimer-de Fries and the rest of you,</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I
would like to point out the first usage of "rag-time" recorded in the
OED as of 1901 "The coon song with its rag-time accompaniment." Of
course the quotation was highly disrespectful of blacks, even at that time. OED
makes no attempt at the word's derivation.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><i><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Maestro</span></i><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> Scott Joplin, himself, expressed his opinion on this
matter. According to Rudi Blesh's article, "Scott Joplin: Black-American
Classicist" in my 1971 NY Pub Libr Edition of "Scott Joplin,
Collected Piano Works" [in America,
ragtime's] "very name was an epithet, a scornful, belittling term with
strong racial overtones. Conscious of this, Joplin himself called the appellation
'scurrilous'" Nevertheless, he used the word all the time.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">One
rag he wrote was entitled "Original Rags" The sheet nusic was printed
with a cover showing a decrepit old black man with a corncob pipe in his mouth,
picking rags from the ground and stuffing them in a bag in front of a decrepit
house, while a decrepit dog looks on. The text on the cover says </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ORIGINAL RAGS </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Picked by Scott Joplin</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Arranged by Charles N.
Daniels</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Published by Carl
Hoffman, Kansas City, Mo.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">So
now we know that musically "rag" means a piece of old cloth from Old
English <i>ragge</i>, related to <i>rugged</i> and Old Norse <i>rögg</i> =
tuft.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(136, 136, 136);">Jorge Potter</span></p>
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