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Until Scott Joplin, ragtime music was regarded as low class and unrefined. His compositions--such as "Maple Leaf Rag"--helped ragtime earn national prominence in the early 1900s, but it was not until the 1970s, that Joplin was award posthumously the Pulitzer Prize for his opera Treemonisha.Katherine Preston is the author of 'Scott Joplin (Paperback)(Oop) (Black Americans of Achievement)' with ISBN 9780791002056 and ISBN 0791002055.
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