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Show "RAGTIME" MUSIC. There Is nothing more vital in tho expression of tho life of any race than its music, ' Its music Is the symbolism sym-bolism for the summary of its emotional emo-tional attainment and possibility. Thero is no need to say that the "ragtime" "rag-time" music, or, as It Is popularly called, "rag music," has its visible source in the ancebtry of negro music. mus-ic. It is negro music moro modern-ly modern-ly adapted. It was 'typically negroid In the years prior to the Civil War It bears radical rosomblance to the tantastic waywardness of Creole song. It Is a modulated derivation Now the most significant fact about this music 1b that it has become typically American It has outgrown its negroid neg-roid limitations and achieved national nation-al lmpoptanccuThero is a popular demand de-mand for ,lt . l'orlunatoly, it Is assuming as-suming a moro desirable Interpretation,, Interpreta-tion,, ;ot the entire range of vaudeville vaude-ville Hong is permeated wltji 'the derivative der-ivative typo, -There Is a certain sway and swing, a certain, Jndeacrlbablo sesuouX something appealing and ugge'sj-lvo about tho ring and melody, the rhythm rhy-thm and versification of the music. Scrutlnizingly perverting, they are indicative of relaxative morality, of disparagement of thp marital tic. of triviality iu relationship of sox, etc., and the entlro moral code might be included. There is not oven an attempt at-tempt made at concealment of tho thought conveyed in tho song. 11 Is out-and-out vulgarity. Walter Winston Win-ston Kcullworth In the Forum. |