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Fascinatin' Rhythm: Writing Ragtime Songs, 11/23/19

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11/23    Writing Ragtime Songs When ragtime became popular, Tin Pan Alley songwriters added syncopation to their tunes and called them “ragtime songs.” But there are also some revealing and humorous stories behind a lot of these songs that, for a while, swept the country.