Once ragtime music began to be published and consequently, sold to the public on sheet music, the genre became more well known and well-liked. Once the music was published, ragtime became extremely popular in the musical theater of the 1920s, although many argue that the essence of the original ragtime music was often lost in translation once it got to the stage. However, ragtime was often featured on the stage in a different manner. Coon songs and cake walks featured ragtime music widely. Coon songs were songs often performed by white people in blackface or by black people in minstrel shows where blacks were often depicted as lazy, goofy, and loud. Cake walks often incorporated ragtime music as black folks would pair up in dance to mock stereotypes of upper class white people – often making exaggerated movements and dressing in fancy clothes.