King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and his Era is a major contribution to American musical scholarship." - Samuel A. The thorough discussion of Hoplin's famous "Maple Leaf Rag," of his opera Treemonisha, of the tour schedule for his first opera A Guest of Honor, and of his relationship to his second wife, are significant and alone are worth the reading of this book. "A masterful demonstration of the scholar's art, revealing previously unknown aspects of Joplin as ragtime musician, teacher, composer, and student.Enlightens as it challenges, traversing the worlds of music, culture and politics in describing Joplin's publishing arena and the cultures of prostitution, the church, the social club, and family life. "Recommended for American music collections." - Library Journal " first-rate study.Black musical history has few happier endings than this celebration of the genius of Scott Joplin." - San Francisco Chronicle "The most subtantial account of Joplin's life and experiences we have." - Chicago Tribune "A state-of-the-art volume." - West Coast Rag " examines and explains Joplin's many compositions in language that even the musically untrained can understand." - JazzTimes "Berlin, an expert on the world of ragtime whose two previous books on it are standards, proffers a splendid new study of the acknowledged king of the music.This biography will be essential in any library concerned with American music." - Booklist Handy lived around the turn of the century." - The Washington Post Book WorldR Louis, where both Joplin and the great blues composer W.C. "In telling Joplin's story, the author examines the red-light district of St. And no one was more up to the task of honoring him than Edward Berlin." - Notes Berlin's role here is not so much a biographer, but an investigative reporter.No one deserves this type of fair, admiring, intense historical and musicological research more than Joplin, one of the greatest of American composers. "It is a thorough and many-faceted profile of America's first black classicist and catalyst for a popular music sensation that went unabated for twenty years. "The most comprehensive and accurate published source of information about Joplin and a valuable complement to Berlin's earlier book, Ragtime: A Musical and Cultural History.The King of Ragtime contains every fact about Scott Joplin that could possible be unearthed.His book, a milestone in the extended Joplin revival, goes a long way toward correcting a widely disseminated misinformation." - American Music "Not only was no stone left unturned, but very few pebbles are left for other scholars to pick up." - San Francisco Chronicle Berlin is, rigorously sorting through the facts of Joplin's life and era.The history of popular music needs this." - The New York Times
"What a scrupulous historian and musicologist Mr. "The most accurate and informative Joplin biography." - Time Anyone interested in Joplin and in the whole scene must be unreservedly grateful." - Peter Dickinson, Musical Opinion Quarterly It is most unlikely that anything further will be discovered after Berlin's tenacious research over such a long period. "The book contains a useful chronology a catalogue of works and two songs not easily available elsewhere. Joplin's reputation faded in the 1920s-30s, but interest in his music slowly re-emerged in the 1940s and gradually built toward a spectacular revival in the 1970s, when major battles ensued for possession of rights.
Joplin's wife Freddie is shown to be a major inspiration to his opera Treemonisha, with her family background and values being reflected in that work. And he puts new emphasis on Joplin's efforts in musical theater, bringing in early versions of his Ragtime Dance and its precedents. He traces too Joplin's continued music studies late in life, and how these reflect his dedication to education and probably account for the radical changes that occur in his last few rags. Berlin offers insightful commentary on each of all of Joplin's works, showing his influence on other ragtime and non-ragtime composers. The book also surveys the nature of ragtime before Joplin entered the ragtime scene and how he changed the style.Īuthor Edward A. It explores Joplin's early, pre-ragtime career as a quartet singer, a period of his life that was previously unknown. This new and expanded edition-more than a third larger than the first-goes far beyond the original publication in uncovering new details of the composer's life and insights into his music. When it was first published in 1994, King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and his Era was widely heralded not only as the most thorough investigation of Scott Joplin's life and music, but also as a gripping read, almost a detective story. Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Global Public Health.The European Society of Cardiology Series.Oxford Commentaries on International Law.
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