Various performers; recorded 1927-64. Durations, program notes by L. Cohn, bibliographies, and discography (2 p.) bound in container. Black tradition: Dallas rag (Dallas String Band). Southern rag (Blind Blake). Dew Drop Alley (Sugar Underwood). Piccolo rag (Blind Boy Fuller). Atlanta rag (Cow Cow Davenport). Kill it kid (Blind Willie McTell).The entertainer (Bunk Johnson and his band). Maple leaf rag (Gary Davis).--White tradition: Mexican rag (Jimmie Tarlton). Hawkins rag (Gid Tanner and his Skillet Lickers). Guitar rag (Harvey and Johnson). Chinese rag (The Spooney Five). Barn dance rag (Bill Boyd and his Cowboy Ramblers). Sumter rag; Steel guitar rag (China Poplin). Cannon ball rag; Bugle call rag (Merle Travis). Randy Lynn rag (Flatt and Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys).