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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › RagtimeRagtime - Wikipedia

    Ragtime, also spelled rag-time or rag time, is a musical style that had its peak from the 1890s to 1910s. Its cardinal trait is its syncopated or "ragged" rhythm. Ragtime was popularized during the early 20th century by composers such as Scott Joplin, James Scott and Joseph Lamb.

  2. Jun 5, 2024 · Ragtime, propulsively syncopated musical style, one forerunner of jazz and the predominant style of American popular music from about 1899 to 1917. Ragtime evolved in the playing of honky-tonk pianists in the last decades of the 19th century. Its best-known composer was Scott Joplin.

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  3. Ragtime is a musical with music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and a book by Terrence McNally. It is based on the 1975 novel of the same name by E.L. Doctorow .

  4. Ragtime is a 1981 American drama film directed by Miloš Forman, based on the 1975 historical novel Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow. It is set in and around turn-of-the-century New York City, New Rochelle, and Atlantic City, and includes fictionalized references to actual people and events of the time.

    • Syncopation -- The "Misplaced" Beat. Ragtime was both exciting and threatening to America's youth and staid polite society, respectively. The excitement came from syncopation--the displacing of the beat from its regular and assumed course of meter.
    • Banjo and Fiddle. It is not easy to tell when and where this lively, rhythmically propulsive music began, but it is possible to point to some very specific roots and to see it bear fruit.
    • The Heart of Ragtime. Missouri, located in the center of America, was the heartland of ragtime. As noted by popular music historians David Jasen and Gene Jones, "There were more rags--and more good rags--from Missouri than anywhere else."
    • The Sound of Ragtime. By the early 1890s Americans had become infatuated with the multi-strained "March and two-step," which was basically the same as a march.
  5. Sep 22, 2014 · Find out what made Ragtime a truly unique American art form, and how it came to influence Jazz. ...more. The pianist and scholar Terry Waldo takes you through the history and styles of Ragtime...

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    • Jazz at Lincoln Center's JAZZ ACADEMY
  6. www.imdb.com › title › tt0082970Ragtime (1981) - IMDb

    Dec 25, 1981 · Ragtime: Directed by Milos Forman. With James Cagney, Brad Dourif, Moses Gunn, Elizabeth McGovern. A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.