Joplin called his pieces _______ ______ in an attempt to make them sound more refined than other ragtime pieces

"1 Million Bottlebags" (Public Enemy, 1991) is about:

a. the crisis of emergency room conditions in the ghettos b. national issues of racial tension that too often flare up c. indicting the abusers and producers of alcohol in black communities d. how hip-hop and race relations combined to promote rap as a million-selling music style

This musician, whom his peers considered the best organist of the age, served at the court of Maximilian I for more than thirty years before moving to Salzburg

A) Francesco Landini B) Paul Hofhaimer C) Johann Walter D) Louis Bourgeois