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In 1974, the academy award-winning film __The Sting__ brought back the music of Scott Joplin, a black ragtime composer who died in 1917. Led by __The Entertainer__, one of the most popular pieces of the mid-1970s, a revival of his music resulted in events unprecedented in American musical history. Never before had any composer's music been so acclaimed by both the popular and classical music worlds. While reaching a "Top Ten" position in the pop charts, Joplin's music was also being performed in classical recitals and setting new heights for sales of classical records. His opera __Treemonisha__ was performed both in opera houses and on Broadway. Destined to be the definitive work on the man and his music, __King of Ragtime__ is written by Edward A. Berlin. A renowned authority on Joplin and the author of the acclaimed and widely cited __Ragtime: A Musical and Cultural History__, Berlin redefines the Scott Joplin biography. Using the tools of a trained musicologist, he has uncovered a vast amount of new information about Joplin. His biography truly documents the story of the composer, replacing the myths and unsupported anecdotes of previous histories. He shows how Joplin's opera __

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Author

Edward A. Berlin

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780190246044

Category

music

Subjects

Memoir, Fiction, Music

Rating

4.06 / 5 (34 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14