Syncopation and Pop Music
Syncopation is the place of rhythmic stresses or accents where they wouldn’t normally occur. Two different kinds of syncopation have been noted, second position and fourth position. While second position seems to be noted and documented in Britain, furth position has no record in Europe and is first heard in African American Hymns.
Enslaved Africans sang hymns in praise houses, bush meetings etc. with the fourth position as shown in the video, they were mimicked in minstrel shows throughout the 1800’s and in the 1920’s the most popular form of music swing, created by African Americans.
This led to jazz, blues, R&B, Hip Hop, known as offbeat rapping. and many of the popular genres of music we listen and dance to today.
Syncopation and Pop Music
Syncopation is the place of rhythmic stresses or accents where they wouldn’t normally occur. Two different kinds of syncopation have been noted, second position and fourth position. While second position seems to be noted and documented in Britain, furth position has no record in Europe and is first heard in African American Hymns.
Enslaved Africans sang hymns in praise houses, bush meetings etc. with the fourth position as shown in the video, they were mimicked in minstrel shows throughout the 1800’s and in the 1920’s the most popular form of music swing, created by African Americans.
This led to jazz, blues, R&B, Hip Hop, known as offbeat rapping. and many of the popular genres of music we listen and dance to today.
