Did scott joplin was Composer,musician, and pianist if so describe his Social significance?
Scott Joplin (between July 1867 and January 1868 – April 1, 1917) was an African-American composer and pianist. There is no question as to Joplin’s greatness, his talent, his importance in the history of ragtime and American music. In the 1940s, a group of jazz musicians seeking to revitalize their art with the spirit of the past, included ragtime in their development of “traditional jazz.” This inspired a “ragtime revival,” and though it was slight, it continued to slowly gain adherents. The revival peaked in the 1970s as new recordings of Joplin’s music, produced for the first time on classical labels, set classical sales records. At the same time, the notated music became available through reprinted collections, most notably a two-volume set issued by the New York Public Library, and Treemonisha was successfully staged, finally reaching Broadway. This quickly growing presence inspired a film director to use Joplin’s music in his film The Sting, which became immensely popular and bro
