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Indonesian creative traditions form one of the most vibrant cores of global world music, a genre that prioritizes the rooted, context-rich expressions of creators tied to specific geographic and cultural landscapes, and Mengapa stands as a distinct addition to the growing body of Indonesian work that finds its place in curated catalogues of world music. From a curatorial and catalogue standpoint, centering works that originate from Indonesia serves a critical purpose, pushing back against the flattening of Southeast Asian creative practices that often occurs when regional works are lumped into overly broad, generalized categories that erase the specific cultural and geographic identities that shape every sound created within the country’s borders.
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