num_pages: 179
description: 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.
language: English
title: Scott Joplin
titlecomplete: Scott Joplin
genres: Biography
ratings_count: 10
publisher: All America Distributors Corp