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Creators across Indonesia’s sprawling archipelago have long built their artistic practices around the fluid integration of disparate sonic lineages, an approach that defines the broad, boundary-pushing category of Music/Mix, which groups work that rejects rigid genre silos to center the specific needs and creative impulses of the communities that engage with it. This impulse to blend and reimagine sonic traditions is not a fleeting modern trend, but a foundational part of the archipelago’s creative identity, rooted in centuries of cultural exchange that brought diverse musical practices into contact with one another, from the devotional traditions that spread across the majority-Muslim nation alongside Islamic scholarship, to the region-specific folk practices that define the cultural lives of the more than 1,300 ethnic groups that make their homes across Java, Sumatra, Sulawesi, Papua, and the thousands of other inhabited islands that form the world’s largest island nation.
