The Ragtime Superstar

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The Impact of “The King of Ragtime” Scott Joplin

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Scott Joplin’s Tremonisha Research Discussion

RESEARCH FOCUS DISCUSSIONS Ideologies of Racial Uplift and Gender Joplin & Uplift Constructing Uplift and Womanhood:  Tremonisha’s Plot and Libretto Difference, Power and Music (Music Majors/Minors)

Lifting as We Climb: The Influence of Black Women Activists on Joplin’s Treemonisha.

Lumsden delves into the social climate during the publication of Treemonisha—particularly pointing out the erasure of Black women of the time. Lumsden points out women from multiple fields including musician Harriet Gibbs Marshall and author Ida B. Wells, and the focus of this article, public speaker Mary Church Terrell. Though the women occupy different aspects […]

Ragtime Video

https://blackmusicscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Ragtime-video.mp4