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The 58 pages that link to Los Angeles, each with the reason it gives.

• Great MigrationBroader topic: Its wartime industries drew migrants during the later phase of the movement.

• Fela KutiRelated: Kuti’s 1969 stay there coincided with his growing engagement with Black American politics.

• Raymond ChandlerRelated: Chandler transformed the city’s streets, suburbs, and institutions into a defining fictional landscape.

• University of Southern CaliforniaNarrower topic: USC developed within the region’s civic, cultural, and economic center.

• Jazz at the PhilharmonicRelated: Granz launched the series there, drawing on the city's jazz scene and concert venues.

• William J. SeymourNarrower topic: The city’s migration and religious networks helped the revival draw a diverse congregation.

• Los Angeles TimesNarrower topic: The city’s rapid growth supplied the newspaper’s home audience and central subject.

• Isamu NoguchiRelated: Noguchi was born in Los Angeles in 1904 to an American mother and Japanese father.

• La La LandRelated: Its streets, hills, and studios make the city both setting and subject of the film.

• Rebel Without a CauseRelated: The city’s streets, observatory, and suburban homes anchor the film’s postwar setting.

• WomanhouseNarrower topic: Womanhouse took place in an abandoned Hollywood house and drew on Los Angeles’s art community.

• Anthony QuinnRelated: Quinn grew up in Los Angeles after his family moved from Mexico.

• Ornette ColemanRelated: Coleman developed his distinctive sound and met key collaborators in the city’s jazz community.

• André PrevinRelated: After emigrating, Previn grew up and began his film-music career there.

• CherNarrower topic: Cher’s early recording career developed within Los Angeles’s 1960s music scene.

• Dorothy DandridgeRelated: Dandridge grew up there as Hollywood became central to her working life.

• Etta JamesRelated: James grew up there and began performing as a teenager.

• Janet GaynorRelated: Gaynor moved to Los Angeles as a teenager and began pursuing film work there.

• Matt GroeningRelated: Groening moved there in 1977, where he began publishing Life in Hell.

• Philip MarloweRelated: Its neighborhoods and social divides give Marlowe’s investigations their recurring geography.

• Southern CaliforniaBroader topic: The region’s largest city anchors its cultural, economic, and metropolitan identity.

• Aimee Semple McPhersonRelated: Angelus Temple made the city the base of her ministry and public influence.

• Charlize TheronBroader topic: Theron moved there to pursue acting after beginning as a model.

• Diane WarrenNarrower topic: Warren built her career in the music and film industries centered there.

• Mötley CrüeNarrower topic: The band formed there amid an active early-1980s rock scene.

• Norman GranzRelated: Granz launched his early concerts in Los Angeles during the 1940s.

• Pancho GonzalesRelated: Gonzales grew up in Los Angeles and developed as a player in its public tennis scene.

• David HockneyRelated: Moving there in the 1960s brought new subjects and color into his work.

• Eddie CochranRelated: Cochran built much of his recording career in the Los Angeles music industry.

• Fay WrayRelated: Wray moved to Los Angeles as a child and began working in films there.

• Guns N' RosesNarrower topic: The band formed there and emerged from its 1980s rock-club scene.

• Jackie CooganRelated: Coogan was born there and began working in the city’s film industry.

• Jerry Leiber and Mike StollerNarrower topic: Leiber and Stoller met and began writing songs in Los Angeles in the early 1950s.

• Johnnie CochranNarrower topic: Cochran built his practice and public profile in Los Angeles.

• Michael J. FoxRelated: Fox moved there as a teenager to pursue an acting career.

• Patrisse CullorsRelated: Cullors grew up in Los Angeles, where local policing shaped her activism.

• Sam KinisonRelated: Kinison moved to Los Angeles as his comedy career gained momentum.

• Alanis MorissetteRelated: Morissette moved to Los Angeles as she developed the material that became Jagged Little Pill.

• Barry WhiteNarrower topic: White developed his recording career within the city’s music industry.

• Bret Easton EllisRelated: The city’s affluent youth culture supplies the social landscape of several early novels.

• Charles BukowskiRelated: Its streets, bars, workplaces, and neighborhoods supply the geography of his fiction.

• Dexter GordonRelated: Its Central Avenue jazz scene fostered Gordon’s early collaborations and bebop performances.

• Erle Stanley GardnerRelated: Gardner practiced law and set many Perry Mason cases in the city.

• Jeff BridgesNarrower topic: Bridges was born and raised in Los Angeles amid the entertainment industry.

• Kate HudsonRelated: Hudson was born in Los Angeles, where proximity to the entertainment industry formed part of her early context.

• Kiefer SutherlandRelated: He grew up partly in Los Angeles after his parents separated.

• Paul ReubensNarrower topic: Reubens built his stage, television, and film career in this city’s comedy and entertainment scene.

• StrelitziaRelated: The bird-of-paradise flower is the official flower of Los Angeles.

• AnaheimNarrower topic: Anaheim’s economy and visitor flows are tied to the wider Los Angeles metropolitan region.

• Behrouz VossoughiRelated: Vossoughi has lived in Los Angeles since leaving Iran after the revolution.