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Ragtime Revue
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posted 2/11/2011
The prime root of American roots music is ragtime. The love child of Sousa's marches and African Americans' syncopations, ragtime preceded jazz and was there at the birth of the blues. And though jazz and blues ultimately proved more popular, ragtime proved just as durable, with notable revivals in the 40s, 50s, and especially the 70s, when Marvin Hamlisch
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