Ragtime

Style · c. 1895-1920 · Missouri, South · Origins (1890-1930)

Syncopated piano music derived from the cakewalk and marches. Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag (1899). Ragtime feeds stride and the piano of early jazz.

What is still debated

More a parallel stream than a direct ancestor.

Where it comes from

• Blues, spirituals, work songs

What it gave rise to or influenced

• Stride (Harlem piano)
• New Orleans jazz

Artists

• Jelly Roll Morton (1890–1941, piano)
• James Reese Europe (1880–1919, violin, piano, conductor)
• Eubie Blake (1887–1983, piano, composition)
• James P. Johnson (1894–1955, piano, composition)

Tracks to start with

• Maple Leaf Rag — Scott Joplin (1899)
• King Porter Stomp — Jelly Roll Morton (1923)

Sources

• EN : Ragtime

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