[Ads-l] Antedating of "Syncopation" (Jazz)

[Shapiro, Fred]

syncopation (OED, 3.b., 1921)

1916 San Francisco Chronicle 28 Aug.3 / 4 (Newspapers.com)

Mr. Gould renders a number of his own creations with that Jazz syncopation rarely ever heard above the Mason and Dixon line.

Fred Shapiro




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