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Indonesia’s archipelagic landscape, spanning more than 17,000 islands that have been home to hundreds of distinct cultural groups for millennia, forms the foundational creative background that shapes every musical work emerging from the nation, each one rooted in layers of shared community history, cross-island cultural exchange, and traditions that have been passed between generations for centuries. This rich, multifaceted creative heritage has long made Indonesian music a vital and enduring part of the global world music genre, a category that exists to center creative expressions rooted in specific regional, indigenous, and national cultural traditions that have often been sidelined by the commercial Western music industries that long dominated global distribution and mainstream audience reach.
