ITS RAGTIME
- 1896-1920
- Extremely popular
- very upbeat and was played by the average American on pianos with sheet music
- syncopation: left hand=easy right hand=swag
- Instrumental and Vocal Ragtime
- Cakewalks and “coon songs” were forms of entertainment performed by blacks to entertain and mock whites in America
- Whistling Coon: George Johnson
- Cakewalk: couples dance originated by slaves; imitation of white slaveholders
- Key artists: Scott Joplin, Eubie Blake, and James Scott
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