ragtime

Example Sentences

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She “played an entrancing Joplin ragtime,” Dr. Gregorian once told the New Yorker.

From Washington Post

Re-creations of black Indianapolis in the early 1900s, its sidewalks filled with petticoats and button-up boots, its dainty daytime tea rooms and raucous after-hours ragtime clubs, are fun and captivating.

From Los Angeles Times

The standard image of silent-film accompaniment is of a pianist or an organist playing a mix of Tin Pan Alley standards and light classics or perhaps, in the case of slapstick comedy, ragtime.

From Washington Post

Spirituals, gospel choruses, ragtime, the blues, jazz, rock, hip-hop — these define our nation’s ever-changing soundscape.

From Washington Post

The “king of ragtime” had trouble getting this opera performed.

From New York Times