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MusicX Lectures on Music #7: Rhythm Is A Dancer! From Syncopation to Swing

How the two biggest rhythmic developments of the 20th Century came to be and continue to influence pop music, to this day

We’ve spent a lot of time on MusicX discussing how music makes us feel — but what about how music makes us dance? This week is all about the two elements that are responsible for making the modern world dance, and their evolution from ragtime to jazz to J Dilla-era hiphop beats and beyond.

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