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Laurel Canyon
Joni Mitchell, Crosby, Stills and Nash and the hills above Los Angeles.
Outlaw Country
Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Nashville's rebels.
Ethio-Jazz
Mulatu Astatke and the golden age of Addis Ababa's nightclubs.
Baile Funk
Rio's favela parties and the Miami bass records that sparked them.
Stax and Memphis Soul
Booker T. & the M.G.'s, Otis Redding and a studio in an old cinema on McLemore Avenue.
Salsa and Fania
Willie Colón, Celia Cruz, the Fania All-Stars and New York's Latin dance halls.
San Francisco Psychedelia
The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, the Fillmore and the Haight in 1967.
Anatolian Rock
Erkin Koray, Selda and Barış Manço plug Turkish folk into fuzz guitars.
Congolese Rumba
Franco, Tabu Ley Rochereau and the guitar bands of Kinshasa's nightclubs.
Greenwich Village Folk
Dylan, Dave Van Ronk and the coffeehouses of MacDougal Street, 1961 to 1965.
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