Popularity and Legacy
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"Maple Leaf Rag" – played by Scott Joplin (June 1916)
You can download the clip or download a player to play the clip in your browser. A June 1916 Piano Roll recording of Scott Joplin for The Aeolian Company. Read more about this topic: Maple Leaf Rag Famous quotes containing the words popularity and, popularity and/or legacy:“A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of “spirit” over matter.” “The popularity of disaster movies ... expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious.” “What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.” |