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Back up to: Composer of the Week

1. Ragtime's Revival

   5/5 Joplin and ragtime were almost forgotten after his death but had a revival in the 1970s.
2. Lost in New York

   4/5 Joplin's final decade in New York saw him struggling for respect in a city of opportunity.
3. The Ragtime Debate

   3/5 How America's critics and musical establishment responded in mixed fashion to ragtime.
4. The Ragtime Craze

   2/5 Joplin biographer Susan Curtis explains how the US economic crisis of 1893 helped ragtime.
5. The Roots of Ragtime

   1/5 The roots of the music Joplin helped to define, with ragtime pianist Morten Gunnar Larsen.