Western pop music has always been influenced by artists and styles from around the world.

A new book aims to give those varied influences, all of them. They're due.

Special correspondent Tom Casado has our story. It's part of our arts and culture series, Canvas.

A literary event in New York City at the French Consulates of Villa Albertine, where the topic is musical influences.

I'd grown up listening to the Beatles singing, twist, and shout, things like that, and then I realized much later, I realized, much later, I realized, oh, that's a Cuban rhythm.

That's David Byrne of Talking Heads fame, and the gentleman to his right.

One way of looking at the history of American music is of a series. That's David Byrne of Talking Heads fame, and the gentleman to his right...

One way of looking at the history of American music is of a series of shocks.

His name is Joe Boyd, and he has a way of showing up where history is made.

He was in Paris when a 1964 film captured a tour producing American blues artists to Europe.

Browning McGee a Sunny Terry.

That's him in the hat and sunglasses in 1965, while Bob Dylan is rehearsing like a

Rolling Stone at his most famous concert ever, the Newport Folk Festival.

Boyd would become a producer with extraordinary sonic range.

From the psychedelia of Pink Floyd, to the pensive folk of Nick Drake,

to the jazzy pop of Maria Muldor.

Nowadays, he's a writer, his new book, and the roots of rhythm jazzy pop of Maria Muldor. Midnight at the Oasis.

Nowadays, he's a writer.

His new book, and The Roots of Rhythm Remain,

is a sweeping look at how sounds the world over have influenced the pop music of the West.

Samba, salsa, reggae,

Bulgarian women's choirs.

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