Dancing To A Black Man's Tune: A Life Of Scott Joplin (Missouri Biography)
by Susan Curtis
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Author: Susan CurtisEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2004-07
ISBN: 0826215475
Number of pages: 265
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
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Book Review: Cultural History
Summary: 3 Stars
Susan Curtis's passion is more for cultural history than for Scott Joplin. She says as much in her preface where she describes Scott Joplin as "the perfect vehicle for the questions I wanted to ask." I felt I was reading her cultural theories rather than a biography of Joplin. She pays little attention to his music. There are no musical examples. And most of his rags are not even mentioned.
As a book on the culture of his day this is a good read. However, for those who would prefer a book on and about Scott Joplin I would recommend Edward A. Berlin's book 'King of Ragtime'.
Summary of Dancing To A Black Man's Tune: A Life Of Scott Joplin (Missouri Biography)
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."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."--Journal of American History
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