Chris Ware and Scott Yoo discuss the history behind the first recording of Scott Joplin's ragtime classic "The Entertainer." ...

When I first heard Scott Joplin’s “Bethena,” I was a college freshman and my friend Robert was playing it on the piano in a common room. The college’s century-old Steinway was appallingly out of tune, ...

(May 5, 1976) -- A special Pulitzer Prize was given posthumously Monday to America's "King of Ragtime," Scott Joplin for the music he composed throughout his career. The award to the Texarkana native ...

When Scott Joplin’s father left the North Carolina plantation where he had been born a slave, there was one thing he wanted to hold on to: the echoes of the Negro spirituals he had heard in the fields ...

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ST. LOUIS – Scott Joplin, known as the “King of Ragtime,” is recognized for his mastery of the piano and his role in integrating the genre into American music. Joplin composed more than 40 musical ...

Scott Joplin was an early musician who transformed much of the landscape of popular music in the early 1900s. Though many details of his short life are uncertain, his impact on early American music is ...