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Author:

Preston, Katherine K.

Title:

Scott Joplin / Katherine Preston ; senior consulting editor, Nathan Irvin Huggins.

Publisher:

Chelsea House Publishers,

Copyright Date:

c1988

Description:

110 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Joplin, Scott,--1868-1917--Juvenile literature.
Composers--United States--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Joplin, Scott,--1868-1917.
Composers.
African Americans--Biography.
Joplin, Scott,--1868-1917--Ouvrages pour la jeunesse.
Compositeurs--États-Unis--Ouvrages pour la jeunesse.--Ouvrages pour la jeunesse.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 108) and index.

Summary:

Traces the life of the well-known ragtime pianist and composer who wrote over 500 pieces of music, including a ballet and two operas. 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.

Series:

Black Americans of achievement

ISBN:

9781555465988
1555465986

LCCN:

87021218

Locations:

SUPC124 -- Aplington Legion Memorial Library (Aplington)

LHPD057 -- Audubon Public Library (Audubon)

A2PD787 -- Carter Lake Public Library (Carter Lake)

NKPD993 -- Eagle Grove Memorial Library (Eagle Grove)

MXPG943 -- Fort Dodge Public Library (Fort Dodge)

SCPC074 -- Hudson Public Library (Hudson)

SPPE104 -- Independence Public Library (Independence)

DAPG173 -- Mason City Public Library (Mason City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

PGAX715 -- Northwest Iowa Community College Library - Sheldon (Sheldon)

SLPC094 -- Tripoli Public Library (Tripoli)