Ragtime is an original musical genre which enjoyed its peak popularity in the 1897 to 1918. the main characteristic trait is its syncopated, or ragged, rhythm. It began as dance music in the Red-light Districts of American cities such as Saint Louis and New Orleans years before published as popular sheet music for piano. Ragtime fell out of favor as Jazz claimed the public's imagination after 1917. There has been numerous revivals since the music has been re-discovered. First in the early 1940's and many Jazz bands began to include ragtime into there repertoire and put out ragtime recordings on 78 rpm. A more Significant revival occurred in the 1950's, 1971, 1973.
Jazz was started in the Southern part of the US in the African American communities. What I understand is that Jazz is the mixture of Classical music and modern music of that time of history. Jazz can be improvised along with Bee-bop, but you can not put your finger on any part of jazz and say this is where we got jazz from. Jazz is wild and it will always be wild. Jazz has a ( special relationship to time, defined as swing.
Swing Music also known as swing jazz or simply swing. It is a form of jazz music that developed in the early 30's and became a distinctive style by 1935 in the United States. Swing uses a strong rhythm section of double bass and drums as the anchor for a lead section of brass instruments such as trumpets and trombones, woodwinds and saxophones and Clarinets, sometimes stringed instruments as violins, and guitar, medium to fast tempos, and a "lilting" swing time rhythm.
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