ragtime

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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

The “tunes” Andres makes use of in his concerto come from American folk songs, parlor songs, blues and ragtime, and they go through colorful repetitive transformations, embellished by Diehl’s improvisations.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2024

As it was passed from ragtime to early ‘Dixieland’ jazz bands, though, syncopation became more sophisticated: now, instead of the right hand cheating the left, one instrumentalist was playing against another.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall