Ragtime Rolls Around

14/03/2016

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Episode Synopsis

Oxford Reference offers the definition of ragtime to be "Music characterized by a syncopated melodic line and regularly accented accompaniment...". Let's take a look at the innovators, at how this style and these rhythms became popular, and how these lines branched out into influencing other music, eventually giving birth the jazzzzzzzz.