USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Ragtime originated in African American music in the late 19th century and descended from the jigs and march music played by African American bands, referred to as “jig piano” or “piano thumping".

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -One of ragtime’s inventors and most important pianists and composers was Scott Joplin. Since ragtime was conceived and developed before records were invented, it was “recorded” on piano rolls.

Detailed explanation-4: -Ragtime was created by Black piano players in the cities of the midwest and drew from drew from many earlier musical styles: African-American spirituals and minstrel songs, European folk melodies and military marches. It would be America’s most popular music for the next quarter of a century.

Detailed explanation-5: -Ragtime is a genre of music created by Black pianists that was popular between 1890 and 1920. Known by such a name due to its highly syncopated nature (which was originally referred to as “ragging the time”), ragtime emerged initially in the Mississippi Valley as bar, cabaret, and club music played by “piano-thumping…