Process Paper
I chose to do my project on ragtime because I love music and sometimes music can do even more for people than speeches and campaigns. Ragtime is a type of music that even though it’s origin is one hundred years ago you can still hear it today.
In order to find the information necessary to create this website I used some of my past knowledge about Ragtime (from studying it last year) and just to make sure that I had the facts right I researched it online. Since the most famous Ragtime composers have already died I looked up their songs and listened to them to get a feel for the music.
I chose to create a website about Ragtime because when you try to find one, it seems that all you can find are websites about Scott Joplin and about the musical “Ragtime!” To create the website I looked at how other websites are set up and followed those examples.
Secondary Sources
http://www.lsjunction.com/people/joplin.htm
http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/tom-turpin-was-early-ragtime-icon
http://www.biography.com/people/duke-ellington-9286338?page=1
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.natlib.ihas.200035811/default.html
http://www.biography.com/people/duke-ellington-9286338