Brun Campbell: The Original Ragtime Kid

by Larry Karp

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476663459
• ISBN13: 9781476663456
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher