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Quiz 24: Music in America: Jazz and Beyond
Who Was the Leading Composer of Ragtime in the Early
Question 36
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Who was the leading composer of ragtime in the early 1900s? A) William Billings B) Stephen Collins Foster C) Duke Ellington D) Scott Joplin
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