It is thought to have originated with illiterate itinerant African American piano players, who learned the syncopated music not formally, but through their peers.

He warned that not all syncopated music "that masqueraded under the name of ragtime" was genuine.

Jazz found its way into Europe during World War I through the presence of American musicians in military bands playing syncopated music.

Jamie Bishton's "Tr(us)t," danced to gently syncopated music by Eric Oberthaler, was a good deal more compelling than its title.

The walls of the cafe are covered with tinted mirrors, and soft syncopated music oozes from speakers hidden in the ceiling.

The stream splashed a syncopated music over the rocks.

Jazz in 1924 was just "popular syncopated music" according to the Austrian composer Hugo Riesenfeld.

His first foray into playing syncopated music was in the same year, with a small band in a Brussels dance hall.

Especially in Antwerp's and Brussels' nightlife, this syncopated music, which had started as a parody, had much success because of the atmosphere and danceability.

With the syncopated music pulsating in the background, he wrote down the right question: "What is the Monroe Doctrine?"