Scott Joplin: Selective Bibliography

Anon. "Joplin, Scott." Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. 
9th ed. Ed. Laura Kuhn. New York: Schirmer Books, 2001.

Berlin, Edward A. King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and His Era. New 
York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1994.

Berlin, Edward A. "On the Trail of a 'Guest of Honor': In Search of 
Scott Joplin's Lost Opera." In A Celebration of American Music: Words 
and Music in Honor of H. Wiley Hitchcock.  Ed. Richard Crawford, et 
al, pp. 51-65. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990.

Berlin, Edward A. Ragtime: A Musical and Cultural History. Berkeley: 
University of California Press, 1980.

Berlin, Edward A. "Scott Joplin's Treemonisha Years." American Music 
9/3 (Fall 1991): 260-276.

Blesh, Rudi and Harriet Janis. They All Played Ragtime: The True 
Story of an American Music. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950. Revised 
edition, Grove Press, 1959

Booth, Mark W. American Popular Music: A Reference Guide. Westport, 
CT: Greenwood Press, 1983.

Charters, Ann. "Treemonisha." Jazz Monthly. Aug. 1962, 7-11.

Curtis, Susan. Dancing to a Black Man's Tune: A Life of Scott Joplin. 
Columbia, MO.: Univ. of Missouri Press, 1994.

Floyd, Samuel A. Jr. and Marsha J. Reisser. "Social Dance Music of 
Black Composers in the Nineteenth Century and the Emergence of 
Classic Ragtime." The Black Perspective in Music 8 (Feb. 1980): 
161-177.

Gillespie, John and Anna Gillespie. A Bibliography of 
Nineteenth-Century American Piano Music with Location Sources and 
Composer Biography-Index. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1984

Hasse, John Edward, ed. Ragtime: Its History, Composers, and Music. 
New York: Schirmer, 1985.

Jasen, David A. Recorded Ragtime, 1897-1958. Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1973.

Joplin, Scott. The Complete Works of Scott Joplin. Vol. 1: Piano 
Works; Vol. II: Works for Voice. Ed. Vera Brodsky Lawrence, ed. 
consultant Richard Jackson. 2nd edition. New York: New York Public 
Library, 1981.

Joplin, Scott. "Treemonisha." Complete Score. Scott Joplin, 1911. 
Reprint, Mineola, NY: Dover Music, 2001.

Kuhn, Laura, ed. Baker's Dictionary of Opera. New York: Schirmer Books, 2000.

The New Grove Dictionary of American Music. 3 vols. H. Wiley 
Hitchcock and Stanley Sadie, eds. London: MacMillan Press Ltd., 1986.

Ping-Robbins, Nancy R. Scott Joplin: A Guide to Research. New York: 
Garland Publishing, 1998.

Rabinowitz, Peter J. "Whiting the Wrongs of History: The Resurrection 
of Scott Joplin." Black Music Research Journal 11/2 (fall 1991): 
157-176.

Reed, Addison. "The Life and Works of Scott Joplin." Ph.D. diss.: UNC 
Chapel Hill, 1973.

Schafer, William John. The Art of Ragtime: Form and Meaning of an 
Original Black American Art. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University 
Press, 1973. Reprint, 1977.

Spencer, Jon Michael. Re-searching Black Music. Knoxville: University 
of Tennessee Press, 1996.

Spradling, Mary Mace, ed. In Black and White: A Guide to Magazine 
Articles, Newspaper Articles, and Books Concerning Black Individuals 
and Groups. 3rd ed. Detroit: Gale Research, 1980. Supplement, 1985.

Waldo, Terry. This is Ragtime. New York: Hawthorne, 1976.


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