Scott Joplin

Unlike gospels , work songs or blues , marked by Africa, religion and poverty, ragtime presents itself as the most European, the most secular, the most learned of the elements which entered into the complex gestation of jazz .

Ragtime was not entirely absorbed into jazz . It continued in parallel and even gave birth to a derivative genre, even more virtuosic, called “novelty” . Then came the time of the "ragtime revival" ...