Slight Further Antedating of "Ragtime"

[George Thompson]

>From The Hartford Courant, October 5, 1896, p. 6, via Proquest:

In the company is Ben R. Harney, illustrator of "Rag Time" music on the piano. . . .

Several earlier appearances in Proquest of his name don't allude to his specialty.

Harney is prominently mentioned in recent histories of ragtime.

GAT

George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.

----- Original Message -----
From: Benjamin Zimmer <bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU>
Date: Monday, June 4, 2007 9:50 pm
Subject: Re: Slight Further Antedating of "Ragtime"
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU


> On 6/4/07, Fred Shapiro <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:
>  >
>  > ragtime (OED 1897, Popik Sept. 1896)
>  >
>  > 1896 _Yenowine's Illustrated News_ 15 Aug. 7 (19th Century U.S.
>  > Newspapers)  The attractive vaudeville bill for the ensuing week includes
>  > Ben R. Harney, who is said to be a very clever illustrator of real
> negro
>  > rag-time music.
>
>  *Very* slight antedating, since Fred previously posted this one:
>
>  1896 _Milwaukee Sentinel_ 16 Aug. 15 (19th Century U.S. Periodicals)
> For
>  the vaudeville attractions six clever artists have been secured,
> headed by
>  Ben R. Harney, the illustrator of real negro rag-time music.
>
>
>  --Ben Zimmer
>
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