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About this Song
Bahas Bahasa carries the structural weight of its formal categorizations, each layer of context attached to the sound positioning it within a network of creative production that spans both Indonesia’s longstanding, vibrant music communities and the global legacy of rock and roll as a genre that has travelled far and wide to be reimagined by creators in every corner of the world. As a sound hailing from Indonesia, it joins a rich, expansive body of work that emerges from one of the world’s most geographically and culturally diverse nations, a country that has spent decades nurturing homegrown iterations of global popular music genres, blending the core sensibilities that define those genres with the specific creative currents that flow through local scenes, from small, grassroots performance spaces in major urban centers to the regional networks that support creators working outside of the most populous hubs.
