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Off-site search results for Scott Joplin... African Americans - Scott Joplin, King of Ragtime Scott Joplin Known as the King of Ragtime, this son of a former slave was born circa 1867 in Texas and may have had access to a piano in the white-owned house in which his mother worked. He's best known for The Maple Leaf Rag
Scott Joplin, the composer, spent only a few years of his life in Sedalia before he moved on to St. Louis and New York. The music publisher met Joplin only by chance; one story has it that he liked the music he heard one day when he stopped off for a beer. It was in all ways an unlikely combination. And yet it happened-with the result that later this month, Sedalia, Missouri, will be throwing a party to celebrate the 100th anniversary of its most famous export: Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag. Joplin wasn't the only composer of ragtime in the 1890s, or even the first one. The new music, which blended march tempos, minstrel-show songs, and the ragged or syncopated rhythms, was percolating throughout the Midwest wherever African-American musicians gathered.