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Dancing To A Black Man's Tune: A Life Of Scott Joplin (Missouri Biography)
Dancing To A Black Man's Tune A Life Of Scott Joplin - Missouri Biography Author:Susan Curtis By using Scott Joplin's life as a window onto American social and cultural development at the turn of the century, this biography dramatizes the role of one brilliant African American musician in defining the culture of a still-young nation. "Dancing to a Black Man's Tune renders Scott Joplin as a man and an artist whose musical genius served a... more »s his weapon in the struggle toward a whole America. Susan Curtis's book is more than biography, more than cultural history. It is a skillfully interwoven telling of Joplin's story within the mosaic of America's social and cultural evolution at the turn of the century."--John Hope Franklin "If one is to know American culture and the place and 'trials and tribulations' of African American music in setting the foundation and flavor of American music, Dancing to a Black Man's Tune is, to date, the primary source."--Journal of American History« less