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Scott Joplin

Scott Joplin was “the Ruler of Ragtime Authors,” a composer who elevated “banjo piano taking part in,” a lowly entertainment connected with saloons and brothels, into an American talent loved by hundreds of thousands. Born in Tx in either 1867 or 1868, Joplin grew up in Texarkana, the child of …

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