单词	ragtime
释义	ragtime /ˈraɡtʌɪm / noun [mass noun] A kind of music evolved by black American musicians in the 1890s and played especially on the piano, characterized by a syncopated melodic line and regularly accented accompaniment: [as modifier]: ragtime piano classics... In their dancing, in their minstrelsy and then in ragtime, black Americans were insisting on setting European-style music free by refusing to be restricted to a ground beat. The story of their rise to popularity as jazz music evolved from ragtime to bebop is firmly traced in Brotherhood in Rhythm. Much of the wonderful music is ragtime, which took America by storm in the early years of the twentieth Century. adjective informal, dated Disorderly; disreputable: a ragtime army Origin Probably from rag4 (from the syncopation) + time.
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