The “Counterpoint Musicality” of Americanness in E.L. Doctorow’s Ragtime

Musicality in E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime is quite deserving of study, as represented by its title. This article conducts an interdisciplinary study and offers a corrective to previous scholarship that has routinely overlooked the relationship between the counterpoint of musicality and the American identities. It is split into three parts: the manifestations of counterpoint musicality in Ragtime, stabilized left-hand voice echoing progressive industry and varied right-hand voice echoing conflictive revolt, which emphasizes the reflections on the “double” American identities.