Dancing to a Black Man's Tune: A Life of Scott Joplin.

Insight on the News | July 25, 1994| | Copyright

Listen to Scott Joplin -- to the music behind the notes -- and you start to wonder: Where did it all come from? The "ragged time" of Southwestern piano improvisers and the popular ballads and marches of the Gilded Age may provide the vocabulary, but they hardly account for the poetry.

Nor can we speak of genius and leave it at that. Genius doesn't flower in isolation; no less than those who possess it, it needs sustenance and challenge, a framework within which, and against which, to define itself. In what world did Joplin move as he created his remarkable music -- ...

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