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The vast, interconnected web of creative expression that rises from Indonesia’s 17,000+ islands, a landscape that has shaped some of the most nuanced and culturally rooted sonic works to be centered within the global canon of World Music, a genre that seeks to elevate creative traditions from across the globe that might otherwise be sidelined by mainstream Western industry frameworks. The archipelago that forms Indonesia has long been a crossroads of trade, migration, and cultural exchange, with waves of connection between communities across its islands and with peoples from beyond its shores shaping every layer of its creative output, from the way stories are passed down through oral tradition to the ways sound is crafted to mark life’s most sacred and celebratory moments.
