Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music, and to shy bricks at "hateful ragtime" no longer passes for musical culture.

She spent hours drawing on her own, trying to perfect her craft. And when she got into music, she had that same diligence in developing her own style as well as perfecting the craft of singing. I don't think that is part of the normal assumption of who she was.

Because it has such a ragged movement. It suggests something like that.

When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me.

Were they Socialists?

People that are affected by music are affected for innocent reasons, because something makes them feel something.