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World music as a categorical framework exists to center creative sonic works that are deeply tied to specific cultural and geographic origins, creating space for expressions that emerge from communities and national contexts outside the dominant commercial music ecosystems that shape much of global mainstream media. Indonesia, as a vast archipelago of hundreds of distinct cultural groups spread across thousands of islands, has contributed a rich body of work to this global collection of world music, each sound carrying an unmistakeable connection to the lands and communities that nurtured its creation, even as each work stands on its own as a distinct creative output.
