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.
Ragtime fell out of favor as jazz claimed the public's imagination after 1917, but there have been numerous revivals since the music has been re-discovered. First in the early 1940s, many jazz bands began to include ragtime in their repertoire and put out ragtime recordings on 78 rpm records.