The first serious study of the numerous African influences on the music of Scott Joplin, "King of Ragtime." A 29-page probing essay with charts and illustrations that focus on "Africanisms" in Joplin's music that have been largely ignored to date. The author states that despite European influences, the music is still essentially "Black" in character, and gives many examples to demonstrate this. Rhythm is but one of the African elements treated. Because the author is an Ethnomusiclogist who has written three books on African and African-related music and culture, and is also a concert pianist who regularly gives lecture/performances on Scott Joplin's life and music, she is uniquely qualified to bring authority to this subject. To date no one has explored the African component of Joplin's music with such thoroughness.
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"...Lems-Dworkin presents a thoroughly researched and tightly argued case, along the way redefining the "Scotch Snap," the rhythmic device often cited as the backbone of ragtime and Afro-American music in general, and clarifying certain misconceptions about African music which might have led to confusion in analyzing its influence on Joplin The overview of African music is well-sumarized and convincing, and there is a definitive discussion of the idea of "syncopation" a term irrelevant to African music, as Lems-Dworkin shows as it has been applied to ragtime..." -- Butch Thompson of "Lake Woebegone" fame, from The Mississippi Rag
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Carol Lems-Dworkin is an Africanist author, musicologist, former concert pianist, professor, lecturer and piano teacher. She has published three African-related books, and made six piano recordings of Bach soon to be released on the Internet. She holds two degrees from Northwestern University, graduated "with honors and distinction," and is a member of the following honorary academic societies: Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi (Science), Sigma Alpha Iota (Honorary Member - Music), and Pi Kappa Lambda (Graduate-level - Music). She also received an Honorary Graduate Certificate in African Studies from the Program of African Studies of Northwestern University. In recent years she has specialized in the works of Scott Joplin, "King of Ragtime," and gives regular lecture-performances on his life and music. Lems-Dworkin also lectures and gives courses on African music, and Black music of the New World.
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