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...induced descent into madness, a deterioration that ended with his death in Manhattan in 1917 at age 49. Joplin earned a penny for each copy of The Maple Leaf Rag that was sold, but he died broke as a result of his creeping insanity and his quixotic efforts to publish and produce his opera Treemonisha...
...great accomplishment was to refine and perfect a kind of protojazz called ragtime. He did not invent it: black musicians along the Mississippi had long been syncopating, or "ragging," the rhythm of such forms as the march and the two-step, and Joplin was not even the first to publish a rag. But in his hands the nascent genre was quickly transformed into something worthy of the concert hall. Joplin's rags, beginning with the sprightly Original Rags and ending with the autumnal, resigned Magnetic Rag of 1914, his farewell to the genre, were elegant in construction and limpid...
...French magazine Paris Match will also publish the photo, but Britain's normally ravenous tabloid dailies have held back...
With its low cost of entry -- a few thousand dollars and access to a copying machine -- this society of self-publishers is growing fast. This year alone, at least 20,000 titles have been produced in the U.S., and Friedman says the cottage industry is growing at an annual rate of 20%. Doug Biggert, who oversees the supply of some 500 titles at 102 of the Tower record, video and book stores, says the chain sells 4,000 zines a month. The supply always changes, of course. Dozens of new titles pop up and fold each month and focus...
Time Inc. is America's largest magazine publisher and one of its largest book publishers, a vital and fast-growing part of Time Warner Inc. around the world. Brack assumed the CEO post for magazines in 1986 and for all of Time Inc. in 1990, and under his energetic leadership, the number of magazines we publish has increased from eight to 24, and revenues rose from $2.1 billion to $3.3 billion last year. He presided over the first successful launch of a weekly magazine in the U.S. in two decades, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY. His record speaks for itself, and he passes...