In music, syncopation includes a variety of rhythms which are in some way unexpected in that they deviate from the strict succession of regularly spaced strong and weak beats in a meter (pulse). These include a stress on a normally unstressed beat or a rest where one would normally be stressed. "If a part of the measure that's usually unstressed's accented, the rhythm's considered to be syncopated." Syncopation's used in many musical styles, if not all, and's fundamental in such styles as funk,… (More on Syncopated)