Now the master of syncopation, of course, in music was Scott Joplin, African American composer writing a lot around the area of St. Louis in the turn of the twentieth century.

说到使用切分音的大师,我们自然想到斯考特·乔普林,是位多产的美国黑人作曲家,二十世纪初居住在圣路易斯地区

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those family letters have been published in a book called The Children of Pride, and a brilliant book has been written about Colcott Jones and his extended family by Erskine Clarke called Dwelling Place.

这些家书后来被公布于世,收录在一本名叫《骄傲的孩子》的书中,另外有一本书是关于,考克特.琼斯和他的远亲家的故事,厄斯金克拉克

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