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Scott Joplin (Hardcover, Library binding)
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Scott Joplin (Hardcover, Library binding)
Series: Black Americans of Achievement - Legacy Edition
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As the son of a former slave, a musical pioneer, and a posthumous
winner of a Pulitzer Prize, composer Scott Joplin fought a lifelong
campaign to have ragtime music accepted by the American public.
This instructive biography includes all-new information about
Joplin's accomplishments. Born in Texas in 1868, Joplin showed
enormous musical talent at an early age. When he was 20 years old,
he began to tour the Midwest, demonstrating his command of the
piano. He became famous for writing and playing ragtime music, a
predecessor of jazz, which features a strong syncopation in its
jaunty, African-based rhythms. Before Joplin, ragtime was
considered vulgar. After Joplin became one of the first black
composers to publish his songs, his compositions, such as ""Maple
Leaf Rag,"" considered a masterpiece, and ""The Entertainer,""
featured in the 1973 Robert Redford/Paul Newman film, ""The
Sting"", helped ragtime attain national prominence.
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