King of Ragtime

  • King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and His Era
    By Edward A. Berlin

    Joplin and Johnson, two notable black Harlem musicians. Born in Viterbo, Italy (ca. April 1848), Giannini studied ... Giannini addressed such issues as the reign of Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria (two letters, attaching “A veteran of ...

  • King of Ragtime: The Story of Scott Joplin
    By Stephen Costanza

    There was something special about Scott Joplin… This quiet kid could make a piano laugh out loud. Scott, the son of a man who had been enslaved, became a king—the King of Ragtime.

  • King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and His Era
    By Edward A. Berlin

    The story of the popular, critically acclaimed music of Scott Joplin shares a definitive portrait of a man who was part of the first post-Civil War generation of African-American pioneers who escaped poverty and low social status through ...

  • King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and His Era
    By Edward A. Berlin

    His opera Treemonisha was performed both in opera houses and on Broadway. Destined to be the definitive work on the man and his music, King of Ragtime is written by Edward A. Berlin.

  • King of Ragtime: The Story of Scott Joplin
    By Stephen Costanza

    There was something special about Scott Joplin… This quiet kid could make a piano laugh out loud. Scott, the son of a man who had been enslaved, became a king—the King of Ragtime.

  • King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and His Era
    By Edward A. Berlin

    His opera Treemonisha was performed both in opera houses and on Broadway. Destined to be the definitive work on the man and his music, King of Ragtime is written by Edward A. Berlin.

  • King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and His Era
    By Edward A. Berlin

    It explores Joplin's early, pre-ragtime career as a quartet singer, a period of his life that was previously unknown. The book also surveys the nature of ragtime before Joplin entered the ragtime scene and how he changed the style.