Alexander's Ragtime Band
Released in 1938, and one of the most entertaining musicals of the decade, this film celebrated the work of one of America’s all-time great songwriters - Irving Berlin. The slight ...

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The Oxford Companion to the American Musical
... Darryl F. Zanuck production. It cost a staggering $2 million but the box office was so healthy that other Berlin anthology movies followed. Alexander's Ragtime Band . Irving Berlin refused to let Hollywood make a musical biography of his life but at least we have this song-packed film that came close. Tyrone Power (pictured with Alice Faye) played a composer–pianist who writes the pseudo-rag hit “Alexander's Ragtime Band” and becomes famous....

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Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4 ed.)
...'s Ragtime Band Released in 1938, and one of the most entertaining musicals of the decade, this film celebrated the work of one of America’s all-time great songwriters - Irving Berlin . The slight plot concerning the erratic domestic and professional arrangements of band leader Alexander (Tyrone Power) and singer Stella Kirby ( Alice Faye ), was merely an occasional diversion compared to the continual flow of wonderful songs that effectively traced the evolution of popular song through a period of nearly 30 years. They included ‘Alexander’s Ragtime Band...

Alexander's Ragtime Band

Ruth Terry

Henry King

Dixie Dunbar

Tyrone Power

Darryl Zanuck

Helen Westley

Grady Sutton

Seymour Felix

Alfred Newman

Don Ameche

Alice Faye

20th Century-Fox

Jack Haley

Irving Berlin

Ethel Merman

Ragtime Reference library
Badger Reid
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History
...most basic, ragtime rhythms consisted of a syncopated treble line (melody) juxtaposed against a regular bass and chord (harmony) pulse. By the mid-1890s, such rhythms were being applied to both the standard form of the march and the song form. The emerging popular-music business, centralized in New York City after 1900 , quickly appropriated both ragtime rhythms and the expression (Irving Berlin's “Alexander's Ragtime Band” of 1911 is a notable example). In addition, beginning with the Cakewalk fad of the 1890s, the association of ragtime with new forms...

Ragtime Reference library
Reid Badger
The Oxford Companion to United States History
...most basic, ragtime rhythms consisted of a syncopated treble line (melody) juxtaposed against a regular bass and chord (harmony) pulse. By the mid-1890s, such rhythms were being applied to both the standard form of the march and to the song form. The emerging popular-music business, centralized in New York City after 1900 , quickly appropriated both ragtime rhythms and the expression (Irving Berlin 's Alexander's Ragtime Band of 1911 is a notable example). In addition, beginning with the Cakewalk fad of the 1890s, the association of ragtime with new...