ragtime
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Taking a cue from nickelodeon piano players, composer John Powell steers the mood with a vibrantly eclectic score of sprightly ragtime, violin pathos and popcorn crescendos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
In addition to grime, gore and disdain for governments, the ragtime gangsters of “Peaky Blinders” provided a minor education.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
Landing on Netflix’s title page for “Monster: The Ed Gein Story” automatically plays a clip of the titular psychopath wearing a dress, wig and hosiery while nimbly dancing to a merry ragtime tune.
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2025
World premieres included Carlos Simon's Hellfighters' Blues, a ragtime jazz piece that paid tribute to black servicemen in World War One; and Iain Farrington's Extra Time, a mash-up of songs associated with TV sports programmes.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2024
He made his name with ragtime but this style, as we saw in the previous chapter, was in the early 1920s being superseded all over America by jazz.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
Vocabulary lists containing ragtime
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