Ragtime is piano music that came out of the Midwest.
Scott Joplin is the greatest composer in that style.
And the one thing it features is the um pa...
left hand of a traditional
American, of a brass band...
and on top of this um pa
is like banjo figurations and other broken up chords so it sounds like ump dee...
It gave the music a joyous lilt and a lift.
And even to this day
ragtime is the most American sounding and pleasant, elegant, happy music.