https://youtu.be/jsBPg4YOCuE Bluegrass can be thought of as an offspring of country music. Like all country it has it’s roots in European folk music brought by settlers into the U.S. in the 19th century and combined there with an African influence including the use of the banjo.  The main instruments in early country music were fiddle, …

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ragtime guitar Ragtime music probably had its peak between the late 19th century and the end of the 1st world war, where it was overtaken in popularity by jazz. Its a modified version of a march with a characteristic heavily syncopated rhythms. A closely related style, the cakewalk, preceded ragtime, both being primarily written traditions …

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