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Cakewalk – a pre-ragtime dance form popular until about 1904. The music is intended to be representative of an African American dance contest in which the prize is a cake. Many early rags are cakewalks.
A Grand Cakewalk was held in Madison Square Garden, the largest commercial venue in New York City, on February 17, 1892. [33] The Illustrated London News carried an 1897 report of a cakewalk at a barn dance in Ashtabula, Ohio, written by an English woman traveler. This version was more of a procession and less of a dance: "Just before the ball ...
In the 1890s, more sophisticated African-American styles of the cakewalk and then ragtime music started to become popular. Originally associated primarily with poor African Americans, ragtime was quickly denounced as degenerate by conservatives and the classically trained establishment.
Ragtime is a refined and evolved form of the African American cakewalk dance, mixed with styles ranging from European marches [58] and popular songs to jigs and other dances played by large African American bands in northern cities during the end of the 19th century.
Since being rediscovered during the first ragtime revival during the 1950s, "Mississippi Rag" has traditionally been regarded as one of the first mature ragtime composition to be published. Some musicians, for example Bill Edwards, [ 1 ] prefer to classify the piece as a cakewalk , that is of a slightly earlier precursor style from which ...
He performed early ragtime on guitar, Piedmont blues, country blues, Delta blues and Chicago blues. A musician of great influence, he recorded frequently for Paramount Records. [11] Gabriel Brown (September 2, 1910 – May 7, 1960). Born in Florida, Brown was a country blues guitarist and singer.
[39] [40] The Saloon is owned by John Turpin, an important patron of ragtime whose son, Thomas Million Turpin is known as the "Father of St. Louis Ragtime". [ 41 ] The Chicago Music Company releases the first opera by an American woman to be published, The Joust, Or, The Tournament , by G. Estabrook [ 42 ]
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