Popular
Ragtime
Ragtime noun - Music with a syncopated melody (usually for the piano).
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Popular and ragtime are semantically related in harmonized topic. Sometimes you can use "Popular" instead a noun "Ragtime".
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- The Sting: Similarly, this soundtrack did a lot to make Scott Joplin's "The Entertainer" popular among people unfamiliar with ragtime.
Source: Cult Soundtrack -
Ragtime was notably described by a 1913 New York Herald article as "symbolic of the primitive morality and perceptible moral limitations of the Negro type", which recommended "extreme measures" to prevent it from becoming popular with white audiences.
Source: The New Rock & Roll
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Ragtime and Popular. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 02, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/popular/ragtime
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