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About this Song
Sprawled across more than 17,000 islands that stretch from the Malay Peninsula to the western edges of Oceania, Indonesia’s cultural landscape is stitched together by hundreds of distinct ethnic groups, each with their own modes of storytelling, ritual, and collective expression that form the backbone of the nation’s contributions to the global canon of world music, the category that holds the sound titled Persetan, a work that emerges from this vast, layered network of cultural production that has long shaped how audiences around the world engage with sonic traditions outside of the Western commercial music ecosystem.
