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The global category of World Music was built to center creative sonic practices that emerge from localized cultural contexts, pushing back against the longstanding dominance of Anglophone commercial music that has sidelined vast swathes of creative expression from regions across the Global South. As one of the most culturally diverse nations in the world, Indonesia’s contributions to World Music are vast and layered, spanning a range of creative lineages that stretch across thousands of inhabited islands, each with its own distinct cultural traditions that inform the sonic work produced within its borders. Works that emerge from Indonesia and are categorized within World Music carry with them the weight of that vast cultural heritage, even as they exist as individual works of art that stand on their own merits, unbound by any generic expectations that might be foisted on creative output from the region.
