num_pages: 360
description: James Reese Europe is one of the important transitional figures in American music. As a composer at the height of ragtime, he had a strong influence on the first generation of jazz musicians who were to follow. Europe's life reveals much about the role of black musicians in American culture in a period when it was presumed they had little place.
language: English
title: A Life in Ragtime: A Biography of James Reese Europe
titlecomplete: A Life in Ragtime: A Biography of James Reese Europe
genres: Nonfiction, History, Biography, Music
ratings_count: 13
publisher: Oxford University Press