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Dancing to a Black Man's Tune Volume 1: A Life of Scott Joplin(Missouri Biography)

Dancing to a Black Man's Tune Volume 1: A Life of Scott Joplin(Missouri Biography)


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About the Book

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.



About the Author :
Susan Curtis is Professor of History and American Studies and Director of Interdisciplinary Studies at Purdue University. She is the author of several books, including A Consuming Faith: The Social Gospel and Modern American Culture and The First Black Actors on the Great White Way, both available from the University of Missouri Press.

Review :
Dancing to a Black Man's Tune renders Scott Joplin as a man and an artist whose musical genius served as 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.... This is a book that students of American serious and popular culture should quickly read and place in their libraries,"" - Journal of American History; ""Curtis has written a fine book with a broad scope, one that needed to be written.... Curtis has set impressive standards of historical Inquiry in this book, creating a lucid argument about the meaning of Scott Joplin and ragtime."" - Gateway Heritage; ""What makes this biography truly outstanding is the author's skillful and always sharply analytical exploration of the varied worlds in which Joplin traveled.... Curtis has composed an appealing tune of her own-a fine book that deserves a hearty ovation."" - Historian; ""For those who have fallen in love with Joplin's joyfully syncopated rags... or those who simply want to better understand the roots of the black contribution to American music. It is a rewarding read."" - Christian Science Monitor; ""Dancing to a Black Man's Tune is a much-needed addition. Aside from the general value of placing Joplin's life within the complex and dynamic cultural changes of his time, Curtis Introduces or reinforces extremely important, but typically overlooked, facts.... This is a significant contribution to the study of Joplin and his music and to the study of American culture."" - Journal of Southern History


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780826215475
  • Publisher: University of Missouri Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Missouri Press
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: A Life of Scott Joplin
  • ISBN-10: 0826215475
  • Publisher Date: 01 Aug 2004
  • Binding: Paperback
  • No of Pages: 288
  • Series Title: Missouri Biography
  • Weight: 436 gr


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