Lee Ann Waters
ASIN: B015UERRGK
Publisher: unknown
Pages: 34
“He was a great man, a great man! He wanted to free his people from poverty and ignorance, and superstition, just like the heroine of his ragtime opera, Treemonisha'” …Lottie JoplinWhen we hear Ragtime, we instantly think of the King of Ragtime, Scott Joplin. Who was Scott Joplin? What drove him to create this type of music? The son of a former slave and freeborn woman, Joplin rose above his humble beginnings and created some of the best ragtime compositions the world has known. Find out more about the man and his music in this Men of History series Scott Joplin: The King of Ragtime.