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America's first pop music, syncopation smuggling the future into respectable parlors.
means A style of American music popular around the turn of the 20th century, defined by a steady left-hand beat against a syncopated, off-the-beat right-hand melody, most famously in piano works like Scott Joplin's rags.
from From "ragged time" — the rhythm sounds torn loose from the regular beat, syncopation tugging the melody off its expected landings. The word "rag" came to mean a piece in this style, and "ragtime" the manner of playing it; the music itself grew from African American communities in the 1890s, the syncopation rooted in earlier Black musical traditions before it swept into mainstream parlors and sheet-music sales.
- ragged time
- Name comes from its deliberately uneven, off-beat rhythm
- scott joplin
- Maple Leaf Rag sold a million copies in sheet music
- jazz parent
- Bridged marches and the jazz that followed
- player pianos
- Spread nationwide via punched paper rolls
- posthumous pulitzer
- Joplin won a Pulitzer special award in 1976
the sting soundtrack — 1973 film that revived ragtime popularity with scott joplin's compositions