Essays on Ragtime

During the 19th century, music was an important means for black slaves to express their lives and feelings on plantations in the southern United States. From the end of the 19th century, jazz was based on the Anglo-American tradition of music, with a mixture of blues, ragtime and other music are as a ‘hybrid”. Black...

The Ragtime is a historic event in the progressive era (1900s) where there was industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and political corruption. The book Ragtime uses many plots of different characters during the time period and makes each character cross paths with each other. The author uses fictional characters to symbolize the Progressive Era to show how...

Ragtime as one of the most important music genre in American history was birth in the late nineteenth century and primely populated in the first two decades of the twentieth century. It combines early jazz and the rules of the black rhythm with the Synopation. It prevailed during the prosperous period of the US economy...