Ragtime

Actually, ragtime was a boomerang. French and Spanish colonists brought polkas, quadrilles, cancans, galops, pasodobles, and habaneras 10Nouvelle Orléansand black pianists flung back ragtime. They gave the whites a laste of their Own medicine. They merely played galops, quadrilles, and cancans, imit...

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Published inThe Apollonian Clockwork p. 142
Main Authors Louis Andriessen, Elmer Schönberger
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Amsterdam University Press 15.03.2006
Subjects
American studies
Anger
Anthropology
Art music
Arts
Behavioral sciences
Blues music
Boogie woogie
Cognitive psychology
Emotion
Emotional states
Ethnography
Ethnology
High culture
Instrumental music
Jazz
Keyboard music
Music
Music ensembles
Music genres
Music theory
Musical performance
Musical rhythm
Musical time
North American folk music
Orchestral music
Orchestras
Performing arts
Popular music
Psychology
Ragtime
Western art music
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Summary:Actually, ragtime was a boomerang. French and Spanish colonists brought polkas, quadrilles, cancans, galops, pasodobles, and habaneras 10Nouvelle Orléansand black pianists flung back ragtime. They gave the whites a laste of their Own medicine. They merely played galops, quadrilles, and cancans, imitating an entire orchestra of winds, hanjos. and basses on the piano, but added rhythms in the right hand which were new to Western cars, even shocking, and which had their origin in African musical culture. The whites thought the rhythms were syncopations (as if it were Brahms!), but the new rhythms were anything but syncopations and
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