{
  "name": "Ragtime",
  "description": "Emerged in the 1890s; piano-led and characterized by a heavily syncopated rhythm.",
  "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/ragtime/",
  "parent": "Northern American Music",
  "level": "sub-2",
  "children_count": 6,
  "children": [
    {
      "name": "Cakewalk",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/cakewalk/",
      "description": "Typically in 2/4 time with a distinctive \"oompah\" rhythm, named for a dance created by enslaved Black Americans as a mockery of the social dances of white slaveholders.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "Ragtime"
    },
    {
      "name": "Classic Ragtime",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/classic-ragtime/",
      "description": "Draws on the complexity and formal structures of Western Classical Music, cycling through multiple strains (themes); emerged from Missouri's Sedalia school.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "Ragtime"
    },
    {
      "name": "Honky-Tonk Piano",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/honky-tonk-piano/",
      "description": "Nostalgic revival popularised in the 1950s which is more upbeat and whimsical, with a bright and detuned piano sound.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "Ragtime"
    },
    {
      "name": "Novelty Piano",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/novelty-piano/",
      "description": "Popular in the 1920s; originated in Chicago and took influence from Jazz.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "Ragtime"
    },
    {
      "name": "Ragtime Song",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/ragtime-song/",
      "description": "Incorporates syncopated, \"ragged\" rhythms into popular song forms.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "Ragtime"
    },
    {
      "name": "Stride",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/stride/",
      "description": "Early form of Ragtime-derived Jazz with improvisational tendencies; named for the performers' left hand \"striding\" across the piano keyboard.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "Ragtime"
    }
  ]
}