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Photograph: Larry McCormackAP Weirdly, Toronto is the place to go for a cool Americana livestream.

From bossa nova and bluegrass to Bollywood, we tune in for a virtual world tour Photograph: Diana Johanna VelasquezAlamy Photograph: Diana Johanna VelasquezAlamy Chris Moss Fri 17 Apr 2020 10.08 EDT Last modified on Fri 17 Apr 2020 10.28 EDT Thousands of radio DJs are employed around the globe to play Anglophone pop and rock.

If theres such a thing as world music to them, its REM and Queen.

But there are many more radio stations around the world that play music from their own cultures, past and present, mainstream and marginal.

When it comes to virtual travel, music is arguably the easiest and most enjoyable way to transport your brain out of Covidland to places youve visited or plan to in person.

The net is pretty chaotic, with dozens of aggregators and formats.

Map the World Launched on 1 April by the people behind Oslo World the Norwegian capitals annual music bash (scheduled for 27 October - 1 November) this simple map is a virtual guide to festivals around the planet, with a playlist of 20 songs for each provided by the local programmers.

As the producers of the map note: Our entire ecosystem is threatened, our festival family, our venues as well as our collaborators and artists.

We simply do not know what will happen and how long the lockdown will last.

Many of this years festivals will be postponed or cancelled, but tunes from Womad NZ, Palestine Music Expo, Panamas Macro Fest and Indias Bass Camp help fill the gap in a small way.

Bollywood Stripped of the dizzying visuals, Bollywood songs can be moving and tender.

Music from the golden age, between the mid-1950s and 80s, features soulful melodies, soaring strings and a fusion of western and Indian classical elements.

Hits of Bollywood contains two livestreams for new and vintage music and dedicates shows to renowned lyricists and singers.

More recent Bollywood music often has excellent production and richer orchestral arrangements.

Photograph: The Matrix This continent-sized country has around 15,000 radio stations, counting licensed and pirate channels.

Many are dedicated to worrying over having Jair Bolsonaro as the boss, but music has always been a cornerstone of Brazilian culture.

Bossa Nova Brazil mixes the mellow Joo GilbertoSrgio Mendes sort of tunes with livelier bossa beats by legends such as Wilson Simonal, sultry-voiced Nara Leo and jazz-inflected singer and guitarist Z Renato.

The city of Salvador in the north-eastern state of Bahia is a melting pot of Afro-Brazilian cultures and musics.

The effervescent website The Matrix mixes up music and world culture and all kinds of psycho-geographical ruminations, but click on the Bahia, Brazil tag and you gain access to some great playlists.

Big MPB (msica popular brasileira) and Tropiclia names like Jorge Ben and Maria Bethnia are there, but so are lesser-known virtuosos such as Raphael Rabello and the very cool Afro-Bahian sound of Tribo Nao Ijex.

Mexican and border music Choose your station at Radio Campesina There are zillions of local radio stations in Mexico, and a lot mix up native sounds with foreign rock and pop but the locutores, or presenters, do tend to talk a lot between heaps of ads for cheap chicken and chainsaws.

Across the border, a reliable source of Latin pop, Tejano fusion and norteo tunes without much interruption is Radio Campesina.

It operates FM stations in eight US cities; I found the Phoenix link the best.

Americana and country Dolly Parton performs at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville.

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