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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 Treemonisha was a tribute to the woman he loved, a woman other biographers never even mentioned. Berlin also reveals that Joplin was an associate of Irving Berlin, and that he accused Berlin of stealing his music to compose Alexander's Ragtime Band in 1911.

Berlin paints a vivid picture of the ragtime years, placing Scott Joplin's story in its historical context. The composer emerges as a representative of the first post-Civil War generation of African Americans, of the men and women who found in the world of entertainment a way out of poverty and lowly social status. King of Ragtime recreates the excitement of these pioneers, who dreamed of greatness as they sought to expand the limits society placed upon their race.

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1. The Early Years, 1868–1893
2. Sedalia, the Cradle of Classic Ragtime
3. Scott Joplin in Sedalia, 1894–1898
4. The Maple Leaf Rag, 1899–1900
5. The Ragtime Dance, 1899–1901
6. The King of Ragtime Writers, 1901–1902
7. A Guest of Honor, 1903
8. Freddie, 1904
9. Final Days in the Midwest, 1905–1907
10. New York, 1907–1910
11. Treemonisha, 1910–1911
12. The Elusive Production, 1911–1917
13. The Legacy of Scott Joplin
Appendix A: The Music
Publication and Copyright Information
Alphabetical Listing
Chronological Listing
Appendix B: Three Songs
Good-bye Old Gal Good-bye
Snoring Sampson
Lovin’ Babe
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
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