Joplin's Ragtime Style Lives on in Print and Song

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RENEE MONTAGNE, STEVE INSKEEP
Morning Edition (NPR)
04-18-2006
Joplin's Ragtime Style Lives on in Print and Song

Host: RENEE MONTAGNE, STEVE INSKEEP
Time: 10:00-11:00 AM

RENEE MONTAGNE, host:

And now a story of another pioneering pianist.

(Soundbite of ragtime piano)

STEVE INSKEEP, host:

Here's a ghost story that just might be true. It's about the great composer Scott Joplin. We first heard this story from a novelist, who heard it from somebody else. The writer, Tananarive Due, says the story inspired her latest novel, Joplin's Ghost. It started years ago when she visited a city where Scott ...

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