Brun Campbell : The Original Ragtime Kid Paperback / softback
by Larry Karp
Paperback / softback
Description
At fifteen, Sanford Brunson Campbell (1884-1952) 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 protege ""The Ragtime Kid."" A composer and entertainer at the dawn of the ragtime era, ""Brun"" was a prime mover in the ragtime revival of the 1940s and helped establish Joplin's prominence as an American virtuoso.
Campbell'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 given up as dead.
His firsthand account of life as an itinerant pianist in the Midwest provides a unique picture of life a century ago.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:260 pages, 28 photographs & illustrations
- Publisher:McFarland & Co Inc
- Publication Date:30/03/2016
- Category:
- ISBN:9781476663456
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:260 pages, 28 photographs & illustrations
- Publisher:McFarland & Co Inc
- Publication Date:30/03/2016
- Category:
- ISBN:9781476663456