YMMV / Scott Joplin

• Referenced by...: Joplin's music was featured in the Oscar's Orchestra episode "Once Upon A Ragtime"
• Vindicated by History:
  • Treemonisha was never fully performed for over half a century after Joplin's death, but since then it has been produced many times to good reviews.
  • Ragtime was considered light popular novelty music during the early 1900s, but the hindsight of history shows that it was a sophisticated art form that had a great influence on the development of jazz.
  • Joplin himself died nearly broke and obscure, struggling to get funding for his more serious works such as Treemonisha while ragtime was falling out of fashion. In 1976 his contributions to American music were awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize.

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