an IT system to determine whether it is an instance of the named platform. A general requirement for the naming structure is that the set of platforms identified by a long. name should be a subset of the set of platforms identified by a shorter initial portion of that same. name.
The first true ragtime composition was published by William Krell called The Mississippi Rag in 1897. Tom Turpin, the first published African American composer wrote The Harlem Rag the same year.
Searching for ragtime song brought up a bunch of links that will have songs to listen to. Ragtime is short for ragged time, an early syncopation. What ragtime actually is or was is a musical genre. Disco is a genre, dance beat and true rock and roll (like Chuck Berry) are genres. They have a typical beat and people make music around that typical beat. These things above all have a distinctive sound because the music all starts from a certain beat.