When attempting to look up information on women singers and performers of the Ragtime era, you will notice that there is not much of it. This is probably due to the fact that the places where bands and singers performed at, such as dancehalls and parlors, were looked at as immoral for women to be at, even if you were a performer. During the time of Ragtime, the lifestyle that performers lived was surrounded by liquor, drugs, gambling and prostitution so to see a woman involved in such activities would result in the questioning of her morals and standards as a woman. This would obviously make it very hard to be widely-known as a woman musician during this time, especially for a black woman.