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Rock and roll’s ability to travel beyond the local scenes that first popularized it in the mid-20th century to take root in entirely new cultural landscapes is one of the genre’s most enduring, defining traits, turning recordings that carry the core sonic and structural markers of rock and roll into shared touchstones that resonate with audiences across vastly different geographic and cultural contexts, even as they remain anchored to the specific communities that engage with and reintroduce them to new generations of listeners.
