Ragtime

suggestion that “the ODJB’s recordings are rooted in the past,” being more similar to ragtime than The Creole Jazz Bands style of Jazz, which “points toward the future of jazz” makes a valid point (Starr & Waterman, 88). ODJBs were playing during the ragtime craze, so their music exemplifies some of that, but begins to carry some of the predominate features of jazz. Even “Dipper Mouth Blues” still has some of the ragtime influence in it and there is again a difference between this song and…

Jazz didn’t start out as Jazz, it was once called Ragtime. This was a composed piano style and was the first major black music style. Jazz was an innovation from Ragtime, they had similar music in them like the piano, but Jazz added sole and also added more brass instruments. Ragtime started in Sedalia Missouri where artist like Scott Joplin and Jelly Roll Morton got their taste of fame in the music world. Scott Joplin was an African-American pianist and composer. He was born into a musical…

the period was Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield. She was born a slave but known as the “Black Swan, Taylor gained renown for her vocal range” (pg. 148). Music progressed through the late 19th and early 20th century in the form of ragtime, jazz, and…

mix of blues, marches, ragtime, brass and other kinds of music.…

performers and, ultimately, helped to lead the “pop” of the music industry. 5. Contrast Tin Pan Alley songs before and after “Alexander’s Ragtime Band”. Answer- Before “Alexander’s Ragtime Band”, songs in Tin Pan Alley were more classical, storytelling, and narrative like. They also consisted of sentimental waltz songs and operettas. After the “Alexander Ragtime Band”, Tin Pan Alley songs became more casual and expressed a carefree attitude. They also encompassed free thought and dynamic…

During the late 1800s, Military marches and small bands created a style of jazz known as Ragtime. It is a style of music with accompaniments that have several accented notes combined with melodies that are highly syncopated. Piano is the main instrument used in Ragtime but it is also played by small bands with several combinations of instruments, this style became an early influence on jazz. In the early 1900s, Ragtime was played in many bars and clubs as it was starting to get very popular.…

arrives with some of his friends, and they go out to clubs at night. In these clubs, Ragtime, a popular style of music, starts to spread. The way Ragtime sounds capture Johnson’s thoughts into wanting to play the piano again. As the music starts to play in the club, Johnson thought, “This was ragtime music, then a novelty in New York, and just growing to be a rage which has not yet subsided” (Johnson 46). Ragtime inspires Johnson to start…

These different genres include Ragtime, The Blues, Jazz, Country, Gospel, Classical, Hip-hop and Rap. The first nationally popular form of music in America was Ragtime 1899. People found documents that revealed ragtime was not new in 1899 because it was played as early as the 1870s. Black musicians could “rag tunes” on any instrument they picked up. Ragtime also evolved out of two other musical styles: the "coon song" and the "cakewalk." Coon…

1890’s - Ragtime o West African (folk music/rhythms) European influence • African slaves went to America however at first their style of dance wasn’t received well. Some of the slaves later on went to Europe where their dancing was recognized. African jazz with European influences then made its way back to America. African Slaves→America→Europe Jazz→ Europe→America • Ragtime • Syncopated rhythms (marches, waltzes, other classic rhythms…) o Tommy Turpin (piano) Harlem Rag → the first Ragtime…

life. These people used them to celebrate, mourn, entertain, commemorate, worship, and accompany a tedious work and life style they were forced to live. This blended with European-American musical traditions to form a skeletal structure for blues, ragtime, and other musical…