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Ragtime follows three distinct families in early 20th-century New York striving for the American Dream: an affluent white family in New Rochelle, a Black musician and his sweetheart in Harlem, and a Jewish immigrant father and daughter on the Lower East Side. As their lives intersect, they confront societal conflicts involving racism, immigration, and class, framed by appearances from historical figures like Harry Houdini, Emma Goldman, and Booker T. Washington.
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00:05And there was distance music, skipping a beat, singing a dream, la, la, la, la, la, the sound of distant
00:18thunder suddenly starting to climb.
00:24It was the music of something beginning, an era exploding, a century spinning in, riches and rags and hymn, ring
00:34on and rhyme, the people called it Ragtime! Ragtime! Ragtime! Ragtime!
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