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Scott Joplin: Composer (Black Americans of Achievement) by Katherine Preston; senior consulting editor, Nathan Irvin Huggins is a children's nonfiction book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Scott Joplin: Composer (Black Americans of Achievement) about?
Until Scott Joplin, ragtime music was regarded as low class and unrefined. His compositions--such as "Maple Leaf Rag"--helped ragtime earn national prominence in the early 1900s, but it was not until the 1970s, that Joplin was award posthumously the Pulitzer Prize for his opera Treemonisha.
Who reads Scott Joplin: Composer (Black Americans of Achievement)?
It is typically read by young readers, and the parents and educators who guide them.
Common subject areas: juvenile, young adult.
- Author
- Katherine Preston; senior consulting editor, Nathan Irvin Huggins
- Publisher
- Chelsea House Publications
- Published
- 1988
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781555465988
- Category
- children's nonfiction
- Subjects
- Computer Science, Historical Fiction, Memoir
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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