USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -A distinctly American musical style, ragtime may be considered a synthesis of African syncopation and European classical music, especially the marches made popular by John Philip Sousa. Some early piano rags were classified as “jig", “rag", and “coon songs".

Detailed explanation-2: -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 along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers in the last decades of the 19th century.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ragtime music is truly African-American music. It combines rhythms that were brought to this country by slaves, with musical forms brought over to the United States from Europe. Ragtime uses syncopated rhythms-that is, the accents in the melody are shifted away from the strong beats in the bass line underneath.

Detailed explanation-4: -African American music (also called black music, formerly known as race music) is an umbrella term given to a range of music and musical genres such as afrobeat emerging from or influenced by the culture of African Americans, who have long constituted a large ethnic minority of the population of the United States.

Detailed explanation-5: -noun. rag·time ˈrag-ˌtīm. : rhythm characterized by strong syncopation in the melody with a regularly accented accompaniment in stride-piano style. : music having ragtime rhythm.