Edward A. Berlin (born June 26, 1936) is an American author and musicologist, known for his research, writings, and presentations on ragtime and the composer Scott Joplin.

He earned his Ph.D. in musicology from the City University of New York (CUNY) in 1976 with the dissertation “Piano Ragtime: A Musical and Cultural Study,” again under the guidance of Hitchcock.

A modified form of the dissertation became his first book, Ragtime: A Music and Cultural History (University of California Press, 1980).

In the 1998–99 academic year, he was again a visiting professor at Brooklyn College and Acting Director of the Institute for Studies in American Music.

[3] Since 2005, he has organized the annual Scott Joplin Memorial Concerts at St. Michael’s Cemetery in Queens, New York, where the composer is interred.

[4] For the 2017 event, which commemorated the 100th anniversary of Joplin’s death, he established a fund to place an engraved memorial bench next to the composer’s grave.