Brun Campbell - The Original Ragtime Kid (Paperback)

At fifteen, Sanford Brunson Campbell (1884-1952) became enchanted with the new sounds of ragtime and ran away from his rural Kansas home, hopping a train to Sedalia, Missouri, determined to take piano lessons from a black musician he had never met. Scott Joplin nicknamed his white protege ""The Ragtime Kid."" A composer and entertainer at the dawn of the ragtime era, ""Brun"" was a prime mover in the ragtime revival of the 1940s and helped establish Joplin's prominence as an American virtuoso. Campbell's own legacy was tarnished by his inability to tell a straight story and he was often dismissed as a liar and a clown. Based on his memoirs, musical compositions and correspondence with music industry notables, this first comprehensive biography of Campbell reveals an engaging storyteller and a devotee wholly dedicated to a musical genre that had been given up as dead. His firsthand account of life as an itinerant pianist in the Midwest provides a unique picture of life a century ago.

General

Imprint:	McFarland & Company
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2016
Authors:	Larry Karp
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	260
ISBN-13:	978-1-4766-6345-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Film, television, music, theatre Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Contemporary popular music > Easy listening, MOR Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Musical instruments & instrumental ensembles > Keyboard instruments Books > Biography > Film, television, music, theatre Books > Music > Contemporary popular music > Easy listening, MOR Books > Music > Musical instruments & instrumental ensembles > Keyboard instruments
LSN:	1-4766-6345-9
Barcode:	9781476663456

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