Correction to inventor of "rag time" Harney-1896

Sam Clements SClements at NEO.RR.COM
Mon Jun 13 02:28:21 UTC 2005


In 2003, Barry(who else?) found the earliest use of the musical term "rag time."  

 http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0303A&L=ads-l&P=R1611

The Broklyn Daily Eagle misspelled the name of the performer as "Ben R. Harvey," but the correct name should have been "Harney."

Sam Clements



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