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World Music as a genre emerged in part to push back against the longstanding Western-centric bias that dominated global music industries for decades, which sidelined regionally rooted creative works from non-Western nations in favor of commercial output that could be easily marketed to majority-white audiences in North America and Europe. This framework created a vital space for works that carry the specific cultural, historical, and social imprint of their places of origin, framing sound as a medium that can connect cross-cultural audiences without ever erasing the uniqueness of the context from which it sprung. That core mission makes the genre a natural home for works that emerge from Indonesia, a Southeast Asian archipelago whose size and diversity have made it a hotbed of creative innovation stretching back centuries.
