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Creators working across Indonesia’s sprawling network of communities, each with their own longstanding creative traditions that have been passed between generations for centuries, contribute to a rich tapestry of work that forms a core pillar of the global World Music landscape, a category built to center sonic expressions that emerge from distinct cultural geographies, elevating work that might otherwise be overlooked by mainstream commercial music ecosystems that prioritize the output of a small handful of dominant global markets. This landscape of World Music does more than just categorize creative work; it creates a space for audiences across the world to engage with sounds that carry specific cultural context, that are rooted in the lived experiences of the creators who shape them, and that offer windows into ways of making and experiencing music that diverge from the formulas that shape much of mainstream global popular music.
