After 100 years, Scott Joplin's ragtime music remains a cultural treasure.

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | Date: June 1, 1999| Author: Gay, Wayne Lee | Copyright information

One hundred years ago, while Gustav Mahler pushed the symphonic tradition to monumental heights and Claude Debussy invented musical impressionism, an equally remarkable event took place in a dark, upstairs ``gentlemen's club'' for African-American men in Sedalia, Mo.

There, a young African-American musician who made his living playing the piano in barrooms, brothels and dance halls fused the European tradition and the march forms of John Philip Sousa with the thriving _...

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