[Steve_Seattle]

"OTOH, a goodly portion of Beatles fans knew the music of Scott Joplin, thanks to the movie, The Sting."

Very little material from the 1915-era was preserved at all, and the primitive technology rendered it almost unwatchable. The comparison to 1915 was not apt because of the vast changes in technology and the vast proliferation of media in the post-war (WWII) years.

[Sirius Lee]

Very little material from the 1915-era was preserved at all, and the primitive technology rendered it almost unwatchable.

I assure you, sheet music from the turn of the century was still available and decypherable in the late 60's and early 70's. This primitive technology, print, is still extant. It is how music has been, and continues to be, conveyed down through the centuries.

It's not my problem if certain people are either ignorant or retarded to the point that nothing exists in their world unless they have "watched" it.