All You Need Is Love: The Story of Popular Music - "I Can Hypnotise 'Dis Nation: Ragtime".
All You Need Is Love: The Story of Popular Music - "I Can Hypnotise 'Dis Nation: Ragtime".
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All You Need Is Love: The Story of Popular Music - "I Can Hypnotise 'Dis Nation: Ragtime". This episode focuses primarily on ragtime music, from the start of when African Americans were still in slavery, where white people slandered the music genre, to the judgement put upon ragtime composers and the complexity of the music. It also goes into the times when white people began profiting off of ragtime music through racist archetypes and stealing compositions. This episode mentions the origins of ragtime, jazz and blues, and how they all differentiate, as well as the beginnings of American burlesque and cabaret shows.