1898 11 Jan. 7/3 Their entire dance being ‘rag and buck’ steps, to rag music.
1955 R. Davies in J. McCarthy 37 They left the Crescent City..intending to disseminate through the dance halls of Chicago the rag music they had created.
2003 E. Ball 104 Joplin's ‘Maple Leaf Rag’ became wildly popular and launched a ten-year craze for rag music in mainstream American taste.