"The timeline of music history is dotted with such moments. A hundred years ago, the model for 20th-century music took form with Irving Berlin’s popular appropriation of the black music of the day, 'Alexander’s Ragtime Band.' The song sold more than a million copies on the platform of its time, sheet music. The year was 1911, when three future innovators of vernacular, cross-racial music—Sidney Bechet, Jimmie Rodgers and Fletcher Henderson—all turned 14."
David Hajdu in The New York Times contends that fourteen is a significant age for future musicians.
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