At fifteen; Sanford Brunson Campbell (1884ndash;1952) became enchanted with the new sounds of ragtime and ran away from his rural Kansas home; hopping a train to Sedalia; Missouri; determined to take piano lessons from a black musician he had never met. Scott Joplin nicknamed his white proteacute;geacute; ldquo;The Ragtime Kid.rdquo; A composer and entertainer at the dawn of the ragtime era; ldquo;Brunrdquo; was a prime mover in the ragtime revival of the 1940s and helped establish Joplinrsquo;s prominence as one of Americarsquo;s most innovative composers. Campbellrsquo;s own legacy was tarnished by his inability to tell a straight story and he was often dismissed as a liar and a clown. Based on his memoirs; musical compositions and correspondence with music industry notables; this first comprehensive biography of Campbell reveals an engaging storyteller and a devotee wholly dedicated to a musical genre that had been largely forgotten. His firsthand account of life as an itinerant pianist in the Midwest provides a unique picture of life a century ago.
#2722396 in eBooks 2016-04-18 2016-04-18File Name: B01EG7OBI4
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