Kygo and James Vincent Im in Love Marimba Remix

However, as in the case of jazz and rock, the word “ragtime” was the common name for any fast dance music until a new name appeared for it. From a purely musical standpoint, I rather agree with those who insist that the Irving Berlin song Alexander's Ragtime Band and similar products are “fake ragtime” - Rudi Blesh and Harriet Janis, They All Played Ragtime (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950), 223. Even the Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music (Donald Clarke, ed., London: Penguin Books, 1990), 955, although in general it shares my broader view of this issue, believes that Alexander “was not ragtime at all ".;