Scott Joplin (Black Americans of Achievement)

By Katherine Preston

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791002055
• ISBN13: 9780791002056
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Chelsea House Pub
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.3" x 7.0"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7