During piano playing and teaching, we should pay attention to rhythm changing of formal or informal rhythm, strong or weak beat, syncope or link line tercet or various slur.
And I think, I mean, one of the things I had to rethink was, well, what does syncopation mean, and what does syncopation mean also as a metaphor for Black progress, too?
From 1880 to World War I, New Orleans with its cafe and night club society became host to a new form of music based mostly on the blues, but also on marches and ragtime music.