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Lenggang Kangkung
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World music centers regionally specific sonic traditions that fall outside Western mainstream commercial music’s dominant sphere. This category prioritizes work tied to longstanding cultural practices. It preserves and amplifies creative expressions that might otherwise remain outside global cultural conversations. All work grouped under world music carries deep ties to the geographic and cultural communities that shaped it. Each entry in the genre adds a new layer of nuance to the global tapestry of human creative sound. This specific sound is classified within the world music umbrella, tied to the country of Indonesia. Indonesia is a Southeast Asian archipelago made up of more than 17,000 individual islands. It is home to hundreds of distinct ethnic groups, each with their own linguistic, ritual, and creative traditions.
