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Music that falls into the broad, inclusive category of Music/Other exists to hold space for sounds that resist the rigid, often Western-centric genre categorizations that structure most global music catalogs, a function that feels especially necessary when centering creative output from Indonesia, a nation spanning thousands of islands with a musical heritage as varied and complex as the communities that call its archipelago home. Indonesia’s musical landscape weaves together centuries of indigenous traditional practice, cross-cultural exchange with neighboring regions, and contemporary fusions that pull from global creative trends, resulting in a body of work that rarely fits neatly into pre-defined buckets designed for more commercially homogenized mainstream sounds.
