Entertainment / Music / Syncopation: Deliberate upsetting of the meter or pulse through a temporary shifting of the accent to a weak beat or an offbeat.
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Entertainment / Music / Mbube: Lion: a cappella choral singing style of South African Zulus, featuring call and response patterns, close-knit harmonies and syncopation. MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Syncopated: A syncopated word has lost a sound or letter. This syncopation happens because of contractions, linguistic erosion over time, or intentional poetic artifice. See syncope. MORE