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America's first pop music, syncopation smuggling the future into respectable parlors.
ragged timeName comes from its deliberately uneven, off-beat rhythm
scott joplinMaple Leaf Rag sold a million copies in sheet music
jazz parentBridged marches and the jazz that followed
player pianosSpread nationwide via punched paper rolls
posthumous pulitzerJoplin won a Pulitzer special award in 1976