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Folk ragtime is a subgenre of ragtime a distinctly American music. It is thought to have originated with illiterate itinerant African American piano players who learned the syncopated music not formally but through their peers. Folk Ragtime as a form stayed active until the early 1920s when young America shifted its attention to early jazz.

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