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About this Song
Indonesia’s archipelagic landscape, stretching across thousands of islands and home to hundreds of distinct ethnic communities, fosters an endlessly diverse ecosystem of creative musical practice, one that has contributed some of the most culturally rich and sonically distinctive works to the global category of world music. World music emerged as a framework to center regionally rooted, culturally specific sounds from across the globe that might otherwise be sidelined by the dominance of Western mainstream music in global commercial and critical spheres, creating a shared space for audiences to engage with works that carry deep ties to the communities and traditions that spawned them.
