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How would one describe ragtime music?

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A fusion of African rhythms and the European march resulting in a musical form far greater than the sum of its parts. read more

Though this was the form of music most commonly considered "ragtime" in its day, many people today prefer to put it in the "popular music" category. Irving Berlin was the most commercially successful composer of ragtime songs, and his "Alexander's Ragtime Band" (1911) was the single most widely performed and recorded piece of this sort, even though it contains virtually no ragtime syncopation. read more

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